The crew continue their Spacewalks to install and activate:
View Barnesy's video of 2 Members of the Atlantis taking their first spacewalk on their 13 day mission; designed to initiate repairs & install solar panels on the ISS! The
new truss will be attached Today... The STS-117 crew will use the station and shuttle robotic arms and conduct spacewalks for install and activates... Three spacewalks are scheduled for STS-117’s stay.
-Artist's Rendition- Click image View Live NASA TV!220 minutes of full screen- NASA Live TV! -(Click-Image) UPDATE: Come back to this post: P25 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan at 11:25 p.m. Friday.Also arriving with Atlantis is the Starboard 3 and 4 (S3/S4) truss segments. The S3/S4 contains a new set of solar arrays that will increase the station’s power-generation capabilities...Click- interactive "Humanity must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will we fully understand the world in which we live."-
Socrates, 500 B.C.NASA Click-Image; Interactive ISS! 06.08.07 - NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Begins Mission to the Space Station
The space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew lifted off Friday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 7:38 p.m. EDT to continue construction of the International Space Station...
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