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Atlantis launch coverage
Shuttle Atlantis blasted off Friday evening on its mission to the space station.
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Atlantis date set
NASA leaders hold this news briefing to announce shuttle Atlantis' launch date and recap the Flight Readiness Review.
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Phoenix: At the Cape
NASA's Mars lander named Phoenix has arrive at Kennedy Space Center to begin preparations for launch in August.
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STS-63: A rendezvous with space station Mir
As a prelude to future dockings between American space shuttles and the Russian space station Mir, the two countries had a test rendezvous in Feb. 1995.
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"Apollo 17: On The Shoulders of Giants"
Apollo's final lunar voyage is relived in this movie. The film depicts the highlights of Apollo 17's journey to Taurus-Littrow and looks to the future Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and shuttle programs.
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Atlantis returns to pad
Two months after rolling off the launch pad to seek repairs to the hail-damaged external fuel tank, space shuttle Atlantis returns to pad 39A for mission STS-117.
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Truss installed on station, spacewalk completed
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: June 11, 2007
Astronauts Jim Reilly and Danny Olivas successfully hooked up a $367 million set of solar arrays today, routing power to the new truss segment, releasing numerous launch locks, installing braces and rotating the array canisters into their normal position for deployment Tuesday.
They also released latches allowing a folding radiator panel to extend as required.
The spacewalk, the 84th devoted to station assembly and maintenance, started at 4:02 p.m. and ended at 10:17 p.m. for a duration of six hours and 15 minutes, boosting the cumulative space station EVA time to 515 hours and 20 minutes. Three more spacewalks are planned: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
"Hey, thanks for the help on the ground, you guys," Reilly radioed from the Quest airlock module.
Reilly and Olivas got off to a late start, delayed about an hour when flight controllers had to reset the station's stabilizing gyroscopes. But once outside the Quest airlock, the spacewalkers sailed through a long list of solar array outfitting tasks with only a handful of minor problems. All their objectives were met.
The new S4 solar arrays feature two folding blankets of solar cells that are pulled out by telescoping central masts. When fully extended, the arrays stretch 240 feet from tip to tip.
Overnight, flight controllers plan to open the S4 blanket boxes and extend each mast one bay to allow sunlight to warm the arrays. Tomorrow, the astronauts will oversee the full extension of the panels. During a spacewalk Wednesday, astronauts Steve Swanson and Patrick Forrester will complete activation of a rotary joint in the S3 truss segment that will turn the outboard arrays to keep them face-on to the sun.
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SHUTTLE CREW WELCOMED ABOARD STATION PLAY
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ATLANTIS DOCKS WITH THE SPACE STATION PLAY
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INSIDE MISSION CONTROL DURING LAUNCH PLAY
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LAUNCH REPLAY: VIEW FROM COMPLEX 41 PLAY
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LAUNCH REPLAY: PAD PERIMETER PLAY
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LAUNCH REPLAY: THE VAB ROOF PLAY
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LAUNCH REPLAY: THE PRESS SITE PLAY
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LAUNCH REPLAY: UCS-23 TRACKER PLAY
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LAUNCH REPLAY: CAMERA AT THE BEACH PLAY
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LAUNCH OF ATLANTIS! PLAY
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FULL LENGTH MOVIE OF ASCENT TO ORBIT PLAY
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EXTERNAL TANK ONBOARD VIDEO CAMERA PLAY
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POST-LAUNCH PRESS CONFERENCE PLAY
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PAD'S ROTATING SERVICE STRUCTURE RETRACTED PLAY
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