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ISS EO-15-1
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8 June 2007 23:38 GMT. Landing Date: 2007-11-07 18:01:00. Flight Time: 151.77 days. Flight Up: STS-117. Flight Back: STS-120. Crew: Anderson Clayton. Program: ISS. Anderson arrived aboard the ISS on STS-117 and stayed behind, joining the EO-15 crew, replacing NASA astronaut Suni WIlliams as the fourth long-duration crew member aboard the station.
ISS EO-15-1 Chronology - 2007 Apr 9 - International Space Station Status Report #07-19
Two Expedition 15 cosmonauts and a spaceflight participant aboard a Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Earth-facing port on the International Space Station's Zarya module at 2:10 p.m. CDT Monday. After hatch opening, scheduled for a little before 4 p.m., Expedition 15 Commander ...more...
- 2007 Apr 27 - International Space Station Status Report #07-23
The Expedition 15 crew aboard the International Space Station completed its first week of station orientation as the crew worked with experiments and hardware maintenance. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams began ...more...
- 2007 May 25 - International Space Station Status Report #07-28
Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov prepared this week for two spacewalks while Flight Engineer Suni Williams prepared for her return to Earth. In preparation for her successor's arrival, Williams' downlinked a 10-minute video tour for Clayton Anderson, who will travel to the station on the upcoming space shuttle flight. Mission managers gave a "go" for a May 30 Russian spacewalk to install orbital debris ...more...
- 2007 Jun 6 - International Space Station Status Report #07-31
The Expedition 15 crew completed the second spacewalk in eight days and continued preparations for space shuttle Atlantis' arrival at the International Space Station. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov opened the hatch on the ...more...
- 2007 Jun 8 - STS-117 Crew: Sturckow, Archambault, Forrester, Swanson, Olivas, Reilly, Anderson Clayton. Spacecraft: Atlantis. Payload: Atlantis F28 / S3, S4. Mass: 122,685 kg (270,474 lb). Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 13.84 days. Perigee: 330 km (200 mi). Apogee: 341 km (211 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.20 min.
The shuttle delivered the S3 and S4 truss segments to the starboard side of the International Space Station. The crew made three spacewalks to install these truss segments, conduct other station reconfiguration and installation work, deploy the solar arrays and prepare them for operation. A fourth spacewalk was added to repair loose re-entry insulation on the shuttle and get-ahead installation work on the outside of the station. The shuttle delivered NASA long-term ISS crew member Clayton Anderson to the station; and returned Suni Williams to earth. At the conclusion of this mission the station finally achieved its full-power, dual-boom configuration first conceived for Space Station Freedom in the 1980's.
- 2007 Jun 8 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #01
The Space Shuttle Atlantis rocketed into a Florida twilight sky on time at 6:38 p.m. CDT today, kicking off the first of four shuttle missions scheduled this year. Atlantis' climb to orbit was flawless, carrying a seven-member crew. Aboard Atlantis ...more...
- 2007 Jun 9 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #02
The astronauts on board Space Shuttle Atlantis got their first on-orbit wakeup call this morning on their way to a Sunday afternoon rendezvous to deliver a new crewmember and a new set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. “Big Boy Toys” by Aaron Tippin, sounded on board the orbiter at 9:10 a.m. CDT, played ...more...
- 2007 Jun 9 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #03
During its first full day in orbit, the STS-117 crew inspected Space Shuttle Atlantis’ heat shield and prepared for tomorrow’s docking with the International Space Station scheduled for 2:38 p.m. CDT. Pilot Lee Archambault and Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson ...more...
- 2007 Jun 10 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #04
Space Shuttle Atlantis is only hours away from delivering a new set of solar array wings, and a new crew member, to the International Space Station. Docking of the shuttle to the station is targeted for 2:38 p.m. CDT. The shuttle crew was awakened at 8:08 a.m. with “Riding the Sky,” written and performed ...more...
- 2007 Jun 10 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #05
The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis officially was welcomed by the International Space Station crew this afternoon at 4:20 CDT with handshakes and hugs. Shuttle Commander Rick Sturckow was the first to enter the station followed soon ...more...
- 2007 Jun 11 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #06
A spacewalk to install and activate a new set of solar array wings highlights the first full day of docked operations of space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station. Most of the crewmembers got an 8:08 a.m. CDT wakeup call with the song “It Probably ...more...
- 2007 Jun 11 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #07
The International Space Station grew in size and capability today when the S3/S4 Truss became a permanent addition as crewmembers worked inside and outside the complex to complete the final hookups. The work culminated in a 6 hour, 15 minute spacewalk by shuttle astronauts Jim Reilly ...more...
- 2007 Jun 12 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #08
The International Space Station’s new solar array wings are spreading today while the 10 astronauts and cosmonauts get ready for the second spacewalk during this flight of space shuttle Atlantis. The day began at 8:08 a.m. with the wakeup song “What a Wonderful World” by Louis ...more...
- 2007 Jun 12 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #09
The International Space Station today spread its wings again with the activation of a new pair of solar arrays that will generate enough power to supply about eight homes. The extra power sets the stage for addition of European and Japanese laboratories ...more...
- 2007 Jun 13 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #10
A pair of spacewalking astronauts is getting ready for a 6½-hour excursion this afternoon to help retract an old solar array wing and get two new ones ready to go to work. Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson, who camped out in the ...more...
- 2007 Jun 13 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #11
Just a few launch restraint bolts stand between the International Space Station’s new solar arrays and rotation, following a seven hour and 16 minute spacewalk by Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson. Meanwhile, managers approved a repair task for a damaged thermal blanket to be carried ...more...
- 2007 Jun 14 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #12
Solar array retraction and spacewalk preparation are the focus of the crews on board space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station today. At 7:39 a.m. CDT Mission Control in Houston played the wakeup song “Indescribable” ...more...
- 2007 Jun 14 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #13
The space shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station crews inside the station today partially retracted a solar array and prepared for the third spacewalk that will focus on repair of a damaged thermal blanket on the shuttle and assisting “on the scene” with additional retraction of the array. While the crew worked in space, Russian flight controllers with assistance from ...more...
- 2007 Jun 15 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #14
Astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are only hours from the week’s third spacewalk out of the International Space Station, a 6½-hour excursion to repair a thermal blanket on the orbiter and assist in folding up a solar array on the station. The crew’s wakeup call came at 7:41 a.m. CDT with the song “Radar Love” by Golden ...more...
- 2007 Jun 15 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #15
The situation aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station improved greatly today following repair of a protruding thermal blanket, restoring power to problematic Russian navigation computers, and completing retraction of a finicky solar array. Mission Specialists Jim Reilly and Danny Olivas worked outside the station for 7 ...more...
- 2007 Jun 16 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #16
A new spaceflight endurance record was set this morning as 10 astronauts and cosmonauts slept on the docked space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station. At 12:47 a.m. CDT, Astronaut Suni Williams’ time in space since her launch last ...more...
- 2007 Jun 16 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #17
In a continuing improvement of the onboard Russian computer system, all six channels are now operating in the two Russian command-and-control and the guidance-and-navigation computers that stopped operating three days ago. During a news briefing from the Johnson Space Center Saturday afternoon, International ...more...
- 2007 Jun 17 - EVA STS-117-4 Crew: Forrester, Swanson. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.26 days.
The crew moved a video camera from the Quest module to the S3 truss. They verified the connections on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint and removed its launch restraints. They then removed hardware along the S3 truss, clearing it for use by the tracked Mobile Base System. They then installed a computer network cable on the Unity node; opened the hydrogen vent valve on the Destiny laboratory installed on the previous EVA; and tethered two orbital debris shield panels on the station’s service module.
- 2007 Jun 17 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #18
For the fourth time in less than a week, the astronauts on Space Shuttle Atlantis are about to venture outside their spacecraft to press ahead with assembly of the International Space Station. The crew’s wakeup call came at 6:38 a.m. CDT with the theme song from “Band of Brothers,” ...more...
- 2007 Jun 17 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #19
Astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson completed the fourth and final spacewalk of Atlantis’ mission at 5:54 p.m. CDT, wrapping up all the tasks planned for the mission and finishing some jobs that will reduce the workload for future spacewalkers. The spacewalk was the 87th in support of station assembly and maintenance, the 59th ...more...
- 2007 Jun 18 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #20
The astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis got up this morning looking ahead to time off duty and awaiting word on when they’ll undock from the International Space Station. Wakeup sounded at 6:08 a.m. CDT today with the song “Redeemer” by Nicole C. Mullen, ...more...
- 2007 Jun 18 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #21
Crews aboard the space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station bid farewell to one another and closed the hatches between their spacecraft at 5:51 p.m. today in preparation for the shuttle’s departure Tuesday morning at 9:42 a.m. The hatch closing wrapped up eight days of docked operations.
A demonstration ...more...
- 2007 Jun 19 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #22
The astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis woke up this morning with the hatch to the International Space Station closed and only hours left before undocking for the two-day trip back to Earth. Today’s wakeup call came at 5:38 a.m. CDT with “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day” by Chicago, ...more...
- 2007 Jun 19 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #23
Space shuttle Atlantis wrapped up an eight-day visit to the International Space Station, undocking at 9:42 a.m. today. Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clay Anderson wished his former crewmates Godspeed, ...more...
- 2007 Jun 20 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #24
Seven astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are preparing themselves and their orbiter for a planned Thursday landing to wrap up the year’s first International Space Station assembly mission. The astronauts’ wakeup call came at 5:08 a.m. with “If I Had $1000000” by Barenaked ...more...
- 2007 Jun 20 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #25
Space shuttle Atlantis’ astronauts spent – weather permitting – their last full day on orbit today getting their ship ready to return home tomorrow with two landing opportunities available at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:55 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Lee Archambault, and Mission Specialist and Flight ...more...
- 2007 Jun 21 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #26
The astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are just hours away from an anticipated landing in Florida to conclude a nearly 13-day mission to deliver new electrical generation capacity for expansion of the International Space Station. This morning’s wakeup song, “Makin’ Good Time Coming Home” by john Arthur martinez, ...more...
- 2007 Jun 21 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #28
The exact times of Friday landing opportunities for the Space Shuttle Atlantis and its crew changed slightly following a brief engine firing that adjusted the spacecraft’s orbit. The adjustment makes possible a California landing opportunity earlier in the day ...more...
- 2007 Jun 22 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #29
The astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are getting ready for a second day of landing attempts with a chance to conclude the mission, in Florida or California. Poor weather prevented a landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday. ...more...
- 2007 Jun 22 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #30
Space shuttle Atlantis returned home safely to the Mojave Desert following a 14-day, 5.8-million-mile mission to the International Space Station. It was the 51st shuttle mission to end with a landing at the Edwards Air Force Base ...more...
- 2007 Jun 29 - International Space Station Status Report #07-32
After the departure of the space shuttle Atlantis, Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov returned to their daily operations aboard the International Space Station this week, while newly arrived Flight Engineer Clay Anderson began conducting scientific experiments. Atlantis landed in California June 22 after delivering a new starboard truss segment ...more...
- 2007 Jul 6 - International Space Station Status Report #07-33
Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Clay Anderson this week finished preparing their spacesuits for a planned July 23 spacewalk. Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov also continued evaluating the computers on the Russian segment of the International Space Station. During the U.S. spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Anderson will jettison a support post ...more...
- 2007 Jul 23 - EVA ISS EO-15-3 Crew: Yurchikhin, Anderson Clayton. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.32 days.
The crew emerged from the Quest airlock at 10:24 GMT. A video stanchion was removed from the ESP-2 external spares cache and installed on an external truss of the station. 736 kg of redundant storage structures and equipment were removed and pushed by the astronauts away from the station, into orbits that would eventually decay and reenter the atmosphere.
- 2007 Aug 8 - STS-118 Crew: Kelly Scott, Hobaugh, Caldwell, Mastracchio, Williams Dave, Morgan, Drew. Spacecraft: Endeavour. Payload: Endeavour F20 / S5, Spacehab. Mass: 14,036 kg (30,944 lb). Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 12.75 days. Perigee: 337 km (209 mi). Apogee: 348 km (216 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.40 min.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched on Aug 8 at 2236 UTC. The STS-118 stack comprised Orbiter OV-105, solid rockets RSRM-97 and external tank ET-117. The solid boosters separated 2 min after launch. At 2245 UTC the orbiter main engines cut off and ET-117 separated into an approximately 57 x 225 km x 51.6 deg orbit. The OMS-2 burn at 2313 UTC put Endeavour in a higher 229 x 317 km orbit as the ET fell back to reentry around 2346 UTC. Crew of STS-118 are Scott Kelly, Charles Hobaugh, Tracy Caldwell, Rick Mastracchio, Dafydd Williams, Barbara Morgan, and Al Drew.
During ascent a large chunk of external tank foam was observed to hit the underside of the orbiter. Examination in orbit using the robotic arm showed a hole in a heat shield tile that went down to the felt mounting pad. There was considerable press discussion of the danger, but as the mission drew to a close NASA decided that no lasting damage would be incurred during reentry to the orbiter structure, and called off a potential extra spacewalk to repair the tile.
Endeavour docked at the PMA-2 adapter on the Station at 18:02 GMT on 10 August; the hatches were opened at 20:04.
The 14036 kg of cargo broke down as follows:
- Bay 1-2: Orbiter Docking System, 1800 kg
- Bay 1-2: EMU 3010, 130 kg
- Bay 1-2: EMU 3017, 130 kg
- Bay 3: Tunnel Adapter, 112 kg
- Bay 5-7: Spacehab-SM Single Module, 5480 kg: Loaded with research experimental equipment and consumables to be left at the station.
- Bay 8P: SPDU: Station Power Distribution Unit, will be left at the ISS and allow the Orbiter to draw electricity from the station while docked, allowing longer missions
- Bay 8-10: S5 Truss, 1584 kg: a short spacer truss installed at the end of the ISS S4 truss during the mission, to eliminate interference with the S6 solar panels when they would be added later
- Bay 11-12: ESP-3, 3400 kg: External Stowage Platform 3, left at the ISS, provided external storage for spare parts, and was delivered with a spare nitrogen tank for the truss cooling system, a spare truss battery charge/discharge unit (BCDU), a spare Canadarm-2 robot arm pitch roll joint, and a replacement Control Moment Gyro for the Z1 truss
- Bay 11-12: CMG-3R ORU, 540 kg
- Sill: OBSS, 450 kg
- Sill: RMS 201, 410 kg
The shuttle's RMS 201 robotic arm moved the S5 truss from the payload bay at 20:50 on 10 August. It was handed over to the station's Canadarm-2 robotic arm, which then attached it to the S4 truss at 17:30 on 11 August, with astronauts assisting on the first of four spacewalks of the mission. On 14 August, ESP-3 was unberthed from Endeavour's payload bay and attached to the P3 truss on the Station, where its spare parts can be reached if needed.
Following successful completion of all cargo delivery and station assembly tasks, the crew returned to Endeavour on 18 August, undocking the next day at 11:56 GMT. Landing was moved up a day ahead of schedule because of concern a hurricane might force evacuation of the Houston Control Center on the originally-planned return date. Endeavour began its deorbit burn at 15:25 GMT on August 21 and lowered its orbit from 336 x 347 km to -28 x 342 km. It landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center at 16:32 GMT. Landing mass was 100,878 kg.
- 2007 Aug 15 - EVA STS-118-3 Crew: Mastracchio, Anderson Clayton. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.23 days.
The crew exited into free space at 14:36 GMT. The SASA antenna was relocated from the P6 to the P1 truss, and two CETA carts were moved from S1 to P1. As a precautionary measure Mastracchio retreated to the airlock when he found minor damage to his glove, but Anderson continued working outside for another hour.
- 2007 Aug 15 - EVA STS-118-4 Crew: Williams Dave, Anderson Clayton. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.21 days.
The astronauts began work outside at 13:16 GMT. They removed two external exposure experiments for return to earth, installed a communications antenna on the Destiny module, and mounting brackets for the Orbiter Boom Sensor Syste) on the S1 truss.
- 2007 Oct 23 - STS-120 Crew: Melroy, Zamka, Parazynski, Wheelock, Wilson, Nespoli, Tani. Spacecraft: Discovery. Payload: ISS-10A Harmony. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 15.10 days. Perigee: 340 km (210 mi). Apogee: 344 km (213 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.40 min.
Main mission objectives were delivery of the Harmony module to the station, and external work to move the P6 truss to its final location and put the ISS into its full-power configuration for the first time. Discovery docked with the ISS at the Destiny module at 12:40 GMT on 25 October. The cargo of 17,390 kg was as follows:
- Orbiter Docking System - Bay 1-2 - 1800 kg
- Spacesuit EMU 3004 - 130 kg
- Spacesuit EMU 3003 - 130 kg
- Station Power Distribution Unit SPDU - Bay 3P - 100 kg
- Fixture for return of S-band Antenna - SASA FSE - Bay 3P - 4S - 100 kg
- Power/Data Grapple Fixture for Node-2 - PDGF - Bay 5P - 50 kg
- Main Bus Switching Unit - MBSU - Bay 6S - 238 kg
- MBSU adapter - Bay 6S - 122 kg
- Station Power Distribution Unit - SPDU - Bay 6S - 7P - 100 kg
- Node-2 Harmony module - Bays 8-12 - 14,300 kg
- OBSS 203 - Sill 450 kg
- RMS 301 - Sill 410 kg
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