KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Following the arrival of the STS-117 crew members at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, Commander Frederick Sturckow greets the media and introduces his crew. The other crew members are Pilot Lee Archambault and Mission Specialists James Reilly, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson and John Olivas. Astronaut Clayton Anderson will also be flying on the mission to join the Expedition 15 crew on the International Space Station. During the 11-day mission and three spacewalks, the crew will work with flight controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to install a
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Following the arrival of the STS-117 crew members at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, Commander Frederick Sturckow greets the media and introduces his crew. The other crew members are Pilot Lee Archambault and Mission Specialists James Reilly, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson and John Olivas. Astronaut Clayton Anderson will also be flying on the mission to join the Expedition 15 crew on the International Space Station. During the 11-day mission and three spacewalks, the crew will work with flight controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to install a 17-ton segment on the station's girder-like truss and deploy a set of solar arrays, S3_S4. The mission will increase the space station's power capability in preparation for the arrival of new science modules from the European and Japanese space agencies.
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