MARCH 2007 CONTENTS i
CONTENTS
Section
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STS-117 MISSION OVERVIEW................................................................................................. 1
STS-117 TIMELINE OVERVIEW................................................................................................ 11
MISSION PRIORITIES............................................................................................................. 13
LAUNCH AND LANDING ........................................................................................................... 15
LAUNCH............................................................................................................................................... 15
ABORT-TO-ORBIT (ATO)...................................................................................................................... 15
TRANSATLANTIC ABORT LANDING (TAL) ............................................................................................. 15
RETURN-TO-LAUNCH-SITE (RTLS)....................................................................................................... 15
ABORT ONCE AROUND (AOA)............................................................................................................... 15
LANDING ............................................................................................................................................. 15
MISSION PROFILE................................................................................................................... 17
STS-117 ATLANTIS CREW ....................................................................................................... 19
MISSION PERSONNEL ............................................................................................................. 27
KEY CONSOLE POSITIONS FOR STS-117............................................................................................... 27
RENDEZVOUS AND DOCKING .................................................................................................. 29
UNDOCKING, SEPARATION AND DEPARTURE ....................................................................................... 31
SPACEWALKS ......................................................................................................................... 33
PAYLOAD OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 41
INTEGRATED TRUSS SEGMENTS S3 AND S4........................................................................................ 41
EXPERIMENTS......................................................................................................................... 51
DETAILED TEST OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................... 51
SHORT-DURATION BIOASTRONAUTICS INVESTIGATION (SDBI) ......................................................... 51
SHORT-DURATION RESEARCH AND STATION EXPERIMENTS ............................................................... 52
SPACE SHUTTLE MAIN ENGINE ADVANCED HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ........................ 55