{"id":660,"date":"2011-09-09T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=660"},"modified":"2011-09-09T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T10:01:44","slug":"brief-photo-gallery-international-space-stations-p3p4-truss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/brief-photo-gallery-international-space-stations-p3p4-truss\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Photo Gallery: International Space Station's P3\/P4 Truss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago today — September 9, 2006 — the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

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\n(Joseph R. Tanner waves at Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper during their spacewalk. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nMission STS-115<\/a> was the latest ISS construction mission. U.S. astronauts Brent W. Jett, Jr., Christopher J. Ferguson, Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, and Daniel C. Burbank, along with Canadian astronaut Steven G. MacLean, installed the P3\/P4 truss, a major structural element that included additional solar panel arrays.<\/p>\n

Here’s the station before the P3\/P4 truss was installed:<\/p>\n

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\n(ISS, taken by STS-115 prior to docking. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nAnd here’s the station after:<\/p>\n

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\n(ISS, taken by STS-115 after undocking, showing the new P3\/P4 truss and solar arrays. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nAnd here’s a nice shot of one of the new solar panels being extended:<\/p>\n

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\n(Detail image of new ISS solar array. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nFor more photos, check out the STS-115 Shuttle Mission Imagery<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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