STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off on December 9, 2006, for her 33rd flight at 20:47:35 EST. A previous launc
Discovery's Canadarm hands the P5 truss segment to Canadarm2, prior to its installation on the ISS.
Back (L-R): Curbeam, Patrick, Williams, Fuglesang Front (L-R): Oefelein, Higginbotham, PolanskySpace Shuttle program← STS-115STS-117 →
A photograph of the International Space Station after STS-116 with the new P5 truss segment
In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane moves the P5 truss for mission STS-116 to the payload transfer container.
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 fro
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…have been flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis no earlier than February 21, 2007. The crew for this rescue mission would have been a subset of the full STS-117 crew. A tradition for NASA spaceflights since the days of Gemini, mission crews are played a special musical track at the start of each day in space…
Reilly (left) and Olivas (center) during EVA 3, preparing the folded P6 truss for its relocation
(left to right) Anderson, Reilly, Swanson, Sturckow, Archambault, Forrester and Olivas.Space Shuttle program← STS-116STS-118 →
Post STS-117 station configuration with the newly installed S3/S4 truss segment.