The year 2007 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including a Chinese ASAT test, the launches of the US Phoenix and Dawn missions to study Mars and Asteroid belt respectively, Japan's Kaguya Lunar orbiter, and the first Chinese Lunar probe, Chang'e 1.
SRE-1, the first Indian recovered spacecraft, on public display at Thiruvananthapuram
The launch of a Delta II Heavy with the Dawn spacecraft.
The newly installed Harmony node of the ISS
The launch of a Delta IV Heavy with the final DSP satellite.
STS-117 was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on June 8, 2007. Atlantis lifted off from the launch pad at 19:38 EDT. Damage from a hail storm on February 26, 2007, had previously caused the launch to be postponed from an originally-planned launch date of March 15, 2007. The launch of STS-117 marked the 250th orbital human spaceflight. It was also the heaviest flight of the Space Shuttle.
(left to right) Anderson, Reilly, Swanson, Sturckow, Archambault, Forrester and Olivas.Space Shuttle program← STS-116STS-118 →
Mission poster
Post STS-117 station configuration with the newly installed S3/S4 truss segment.
An overhead crane lifts the completed S3/S4 truss inside the Space Station Processing Facility
