Clayton Conrad Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007, as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew. He is currently an author, a motivational speaker, and a Professor of Practice at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. In 2022 he became the president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum.
Anderson in 2009
Anderson watches as a water bubble floats in front of him on the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.
Anderson in the Destiny module of the International Space Station
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