STS-117
Flight Day Song Artist Played for Links
Day 2 Big Boy Toys Aaron Tippin Rick Sturckow wav mp3 transcript
Day 3 Riding the Sky David Kelldorf and Brad Loveall ( both employed at Johnson Space Center ) Clayton Anderson wav mp3 transcript
Day 4 It Probably Always Will Ozark Mountain Daredevils Steven Swanson wav mp3 transcript
Day 5 What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong John Danny Olivas wav mp3 transcript
Day 6 Questions 67 and 68 Chicago Lee Archambault wav mp3 transcript
Day 7 Indescribable Chris Tomlin Patrick Forrester wav mp3 transcript
Day 8 Radar Love Golden Earring Steven Swanson wav mp3 transcript
Day 9 University of Texas El Paso Fight Song UTEP John Danny Olivas wav mp3 transcript
Day 10 Theme song from Band of Brothers James Reilly wav mp3 transcript
Day 11 Redeemer Nicole C. Mullen Patrick Forrester wav mp3 transcript
Day 12 Feelin ' Stronger Every Day Chicago Lee Archambault wav mp3 transcript
Day 13 If I Had a Million Dollars Barenaked Ladies Sunita Williams wav mp3 transcript
Day 14 Makin ' Good Time Coming Home John Arthur Martinez Rick Sturckow and Jim Reilly wav mp3 transcript
Day 15 The Marines ' Hymn The Marine Corps Band Rick Sturckow wav mp3 transcript
Wake-up calls
In what has become a tradition for NASA spaceflights since the days of Gemini , the crew of STS-117 is played a special musical track at the start of each day in space . Each track is specially chosen and often has a particular meaning to an individual member of the crew , or it is somehow applicable to their situation . [ 72 ]
STS-117 (ISS assembly flight 13A) was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on 8 June 2007. Atlantis lifted off from the launch pad at 19:38 EDT. Damage from a hail storm on 26 February 2007 had previously caused the launch to be postponed from an originally-planned launch date of 15 March 2007. The launch of STS-117 marked the 250th orbital human spaceflight. Atlantis delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) the second starboard truss segment (the S3/S4 Truss) and its associated energy systems, including a set of solar arrays. During the course of the mission the crew installed the new truss segment, retracted one set of solar arrays, and unfolded the new set on the starboard side of the station. STS-117 also brought Expedition 15 crewmember Clayton Anderson to the station, and returned with ISS crewmember Sunita Williams. On 11 June 2007, NASA mission managers announced a two-day extension of the mission, adding a fourth extra-vehicular activity (EVA). These two days were inserted into the mission timeline after flight day 8. This possibility had been discussed prior to launch. Because of launch day and thus rendezvous day uncertainty the decision to extend was deferred until after launch. The repair of the gap in the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) thermal blanket (heat shielding) was conducted during EVA 3.