Mission STS-115
Mission description
Patch STS-115
(Credit: Canadian Space Agency)
Launch
Date: September 9, 2006
Time: 11:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT)
Site: Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Landing
Date: September 21, 2006
Time: 6:21 a.m. EDT
Site: Edwards Air Force Base
Mission duration: 11 days, 19 hours (h), 06 minutes (min)
Flight number: STS-115
Orbiter vehicle: Atlantis
Payloads:
P3/P4 Truss Segments
During 12 days in space, Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean and his crewmates successfully resumed the assembly of the International Space Station. Launching aboard Shuttle Atlantis, they delivered and installed new truss segments and solar arrays, doubling the power capacity of the orbiting laboratory.
During this mission, Steve MacLean became the first Canadian to operate Canadarm2 for an official task in space and the second Canadian to perform a spacewalk.
Mission STS-115 crew
From left to right.
Front row: Brent Jett and Christopher Ferguson.
Back row: Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph Tanner, Daniel Burbank and Steve MacLean. (Credit: NASA)
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