STS-115
Launched: Sept. 9, 2006, 11:15 a.m. EDT
Landing: Sept. 21, 2006, 6:21 a.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Fl.
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Crew: Commander Brent W. Jett, Jr., Pilot Christopher J. Ferguson, mission specialists Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank, and Steven G. MacLean
The STS-115 mission continued construction of the International Space Station. Three spacewalks were planned to install the P3/P4 integrated truss, deploy the solar arrays and prepare them for operation. A new procedure called a "camp out" was implemented, in which astronauts slept in the Quest airlock prior to their spacewalks. The process shortens the "prebreathe" time during which nitrogen is purged from the astronauts' systems and air pressure is lowered so the spacewalkers avoid the condition known as the bends.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts115-s-001
Date: February 2003
STS-115
Launched: Sept. 9, 2006, 11:15 a.m. EDT
Landing: Sept. 21, 2006, 6:21 a.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Fl.
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Crew: Commander Brent W. Jett, Jr., Pilot Christopher J. Ferguson, mission specialists Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank, and Steven G. MacLean
The STS-115 mission continued construction of the International Space Station. Three spacewalks were planned to install the P3/P4 integrated truss, deploy the solar arrays and prepare them for operation. A new procedure called a "camp out" was implemented, in which astronauts slept in the Quest airlock prior to their spacewalks. The process shortens the "prebreathe" time during which nitrogen is purged from the astronauts' systems and air pressure is lowered so the spacewalkers avoid the condition known as the bends.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts115-s-001
Date: February 2003