STS 115

Mission: STS-115,

Orbiter: Atlantis (OV-104) on its 27th flight.

Mission Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Chris Ferguson, Mission Specialists Daniel Burbank, Steven MacLean, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Joseph Tanner

Launch: Sept. 9, 2006 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT) Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

"Commander Brent Jett and his five crewmates will install a new 17-ton segment of the station's truss backbone, adding a new set of giant solar panels and batteries to the complex. Three spacewalks are planned." -NASA

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"Atlantis is named for the primary research sailing vessel used by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute from 1930 to 1966 and was the first vessel to use electronic sounding devices to map the ocean floor. The two-masted, 460-ton ketch was the first U.S. vessel to be used for oceanographic research. Such research was considered to be one of the last bastions of the sailing vessel as steam-and-diesel-powered vessels dominated the waterways." --Also NASA... but it's a cool fact anyway :D

---Me.