Examples of use of STS-117
1. The STS–117 crew will conduct three spacewalks to activate the S3/S4.
2. The STS–117 crew members are returning home from a construction mission to the International Space Station.
3. However, that flight, first set to fly in June, had to be postponed after an unexpected hailstorm damaged Atlantis‘ external fuel tank and delayed STS–117.
4. Another objective of the fourth spacewalk is to collect additional information that could prove useful when the opposite side of the array is retracted on STS–117 in March.
5. Sunita, who replaced the European Space Agency‘s German astronaut Thomas Reiter on December ', 2006, was informed Thursday that she would return to Earth with the STS–117 crew on space shuttle Atlantis, targeted for launch on June 8.