STS-117

Frederick W. Sturckow

• Birthday: 08/11/1961
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 12/04/1998
• Last Flight: 01/26/2024

Frederick Wilford "Rick" Sturckow is an Engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former NASA astronaut...

Lee Archambault

• Birthday: 08/25/1960
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/08/2007
• Last Flight: 03/15/2009

Lee Joseph "Bru" Archambault is an American test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He has logged over 4,250 flight h...

Clayton Anderson

• Birthday: 02/23/1959
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/08/2007
• Last Flight: 04/05/2010

Clayton Conrad Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007 as a m...

John D. Olivas

• Birthday: 05/25/1966
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/08/2007
• Last Flight: 08/29/2009

John Daniel "Danny" Olivas is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. Olivas has flown on two space shutt...

James F. Reilly

• Birthday: 03/18/1954
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/23/1998
• Last Flight: 06/08/2007

James Francis Reilly II is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. He flew on three space shuttle missions: STS-89...

Patrick G. Forrester

• Birthday: 03/31/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/10/2001
• Last Flight: 08/29/2009

Patrick Graham Forrester is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. At the time of his retirement from the U...

Steven Swanson

• Birthday: 12/03/1960
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/08/2007
• Last Flight: 03/25/2014

Steven Ray Swanson is an American Engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. He is married and has three children. He has receive...

Mission

STS-117

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

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.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 199 rockets, including 198 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 257 rocket launches.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Rocket

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

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Agency

United Space Alliance

United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.