June 9, 2007.  S.P. Korolev RSC Energia – MCC-M,
Korolev, Moscow Region

At 03:38 Moscow Time, a US reusable space vehicle Atlantis was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launch site of the Kennedy Space Center (USA) (ISS mission 13A or Space Shuttle mission STS-117).
The objective of this mission is to continue assembly of the US orbital segment by adding solar panel to the electrical power system, rotation of the US astronaut within the crew of ISS Expedition 15 (replacing Sunita Williams with Clayton Anderson), delivery of various cargoes to the space station.
According to telemetry data from Russian and US mission control centers (MCC-M near Moscow and MCC-H in Houston) and reports from the crew, the on-board systems of the Russian and US segments of the space station operate normally. The space station is getting ready for the docking with Atlantis scheduled for June 10, 2007 at 23:35 Moscow Time.
Working on-board the ISS is a crew consisting of Fyodor Yurchikhin (S.P.Korolev RSC Energia cosmonaut tester, crew commander), Oleg Kotov (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, flight engineer) and Sunita Williams (NASA astronaut, flight engineer-2).