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
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.
Sunita Lyn Williams is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 14, Expedition 15, Exp
STS-117
…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 June 11, 2007, NASA mission managers announced a two-day extension of the mission, adding a fourth extra-vehicular activity (EVA). These two days…
Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, STS-116 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA)
Williams became the first person to run a marathon from the space station on April 16, 2007
Joan Higginbotham and Williams work the controls of the Canadarm2 in the ISS's Destiny Laboratory