STS-117 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:02:29 1 Crew
00:02:38 1.1 Crew Notes
00:03:17 2 Mission payload
00:03:27 2.1 S3/S4 truss segments
00:05:47 2.1.1 Starboard 3
00:07:23 2.1.2 Starboard 4
00:09:25 2.2 Hydrogen Vent Valve
00:10:01 2.3 Other items
00:11:39 3 Mission background
00:12:20 4 Shuttle processing
00:16:30 4.1 Hail damage
00:18:37 4.2 Aging problem
00:19:16 5 Mission timeline
00:19:26 5.1 8 June (Flight day 1 – Launch)
00:22:46 5.2 9 June (Flight day 2 – TPS survey)
00:24:59 5.3 10 June (Flight day 3 – Docking)
00:28:01 5.4 11 June (Flight day 4 – EVA 1)
00:30:32 5.5 12 June (Flight day 5 – Solar array deployment)
00:32:49 5.6 13 June (Flight day 6 – EVA 2)
00:36:15 5.7 14 June (Flight day 7)
00:38:12 5.8 15 June (Flight day 8 – EVA 3)
00:41:27 5.9 16 June (Flight day 9)
00:43:53 5.10 17 June (Flight day 10 – EVA 4)
00:46:50 5.11 18 June (Flight day 11 – Off-duty)
00:47:57 5.12 19 June (Flight day 12 – Undocking)
00:50:59 5.13 20 June (Flight day 13)
00:51:24 5.14 21 June (Flight day 14 – Scrubbed landing)
00:51:54 5.15 22 June (Flight day 15 – Landing)
00:54:38 6 Spacewalks
00:54:48 7 Wake-up calls
00:55:24 8 Mission insignia
00:56:32 9 Contingency planning
00:56:43 9.1 STS-317
00:57:36 10 Incorrect press reports of accident
00:58:43 11 See also



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SUMMARY
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STS-117 (ISS assembly flight 13A) was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on 8 June 2007. Atlantis lifted off from the launch pad at 19:38 EDT. Damage from a hail storm on 26 February 2007 had previously caused the launch to be postponed from an originally-planned launch date of 15 March 2007. The launch of STS-117 marked the 250th orbital human spaceflight.Atlantis delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) the second starboard truss segment (the S3/S4 Truss) and its associated energy systems, including a set of solar arrays. During the course of the mission the crew installed the new truss segment, retracted one set of solar arrays, and unfolded the new set on the starboard side of the station. STS-117 also brought Expedition 15 crewmember Clayton Anderson to the station, and returned with ISS crewmember Sunita Williams.
On 11 June 2007, NASA mission managers announced a two-day extension of the mission, adding a fourth extra-vehicular activity (EVA). These two days were inserted into the mission timeline after flight day 8. This possibility had been discussed prior to launch. Because of launch day and thus rendezvous day uncertainty the decision to extend was deferred until after launch. The repair of the gap in the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) thermal blanket (heat shielding) was conducted during EVA 3.STS-117 remains the longest mission for Atlantis because of the cancellation of landing opportunities on 21 June 2007 due to bad weather.  Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base on 22 June 2007.