Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on
Edwards
AFB;
ISS-13A
ITS-S3 /
ITS-S4. The
launch was originally planned for March 15, 2007 but postponed due to damage
from a hail storm on February 26, 2007.
Docking to
ISS on flight
day 2 and common work with the
ISS
expedition 15.
Transfer
Anderson to
ISS and
Williams to the crew of STS-117.
First
EVA by
Reilly and
Olivas on 11.06.2007 (6h 15m) for hooking up power cables to
begin activation of the S3/S4 truss and starting to prepare the Solar Alpha
Rotary Joint, also known as the
SARJ, for
activation. The work included connecting power, data and cooling cables between
S1 and S3; releasing the launch restraints from and deploying the four solar
array blanket boxes on S4 and releasing the cinches and winches holding the
photovoltaic radiator on S4. They also rotated the keel pin on S3; rigidized
four Alpha Joint Interface Structure struts and installed one Drive Lock
Assembly on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint; and at least removed some of the
SARJ launch
locks and restraints.
Second
EVA by
Forrester and
Swanson on 13.06.2007 (7h 16m) to continue the activation of
the S3/S4 and assist in the retraction of the starboard solar array on the Port
6 (P6) truss. They removed all of the launch locks holding the 10-foot-wide
solar alpha rotary joint in place, but were not able to remove the joint's
launch restraints as well; they left them for a later spacewalk. After the end
of the spacewalk problems become serious when navigation computers in the
Russian segment did not operate. Over the next days, the computers were
repaired. Meanwhile Mission Control had decided to extend the mission
duration.
Third
EVA by
Reilly and
Olivas on 15.06.2007 15.06.2007 (7h 58m) to finish removing
the
SARJ's
launch locks and restraints so that it can be activated and repairing a raised
corner of a thermal insulation blanket on the shuttle's left Orbital
Maneuvering System pod that came loose from the shuttle during launch.
Fourth and unplanned spacewalk by
Forrester and
Swanson on 17.06.2007 (6h 29m) to activate the new solar
array rotation mechanism
SARJ and ready
the lab complex for a critical sequence of upcoming construction flights; work
included the removal of a keel pin and drag link from S3, the complete bolting
down of a piece of debris shielding on the Destiny laboratory, the installation
of a computer network cable on Unity, and the removal of a Global Positioning
System antenna.
The landing was running a day late because of blustery
Florida weather.
