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2 October 2003 00:00 GMT. (Cancelled flight). Other Name: ISS-13A. Crew: Sturckow, Polansky, Reilly, Mastracchio, Higginbotham, Forrester. Program: ISS. Flight delayed after the Columbia disaster. STS-117 was to have flown ISS Assembly mission ISS-13A. It would have delivered the second right-side truss segment (ITS S3/S4) and a solar array set and batteries. The crew would have attached the S3/S4 Truss to the first starboard truss, the S1, along with the third set of solar arrays. They then would have delivered four external attachment sites for truss-mounted exterior experiments and research; activated and checked out the S4 Truss Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ); deployed the channel 1A and 3A solar arrays; reconfigured the station power supply; and retracted the P6 Truss Channel 2B (starboard) solar arra
STS-117A Chronology
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