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• June 23: The crew of STS-117 applauds astronaut Sunita Williams, left, newly minted holder of records for women in space, in Houston.
• June 22: Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after having been diverted from Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to bad weather.
• June 22: Clouds loom over the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• June 22: Muslim children pray for the return of astronaut Sunita Williams, whose father is from the Indian state of Gujarat, in Ahmadabad, India.
• June 21: Christian schoolgirls pray for the safe return of astronaut Sunita Williams, whose father is Indian, in Hyderabad, India.
• June 17: Steve Swanson and Pat Forrester, top right, are shown on a space walk outside the international space station.
• June 15: Astronaut Danny Olivas is at the end of the shuttle arm outside the space shuttle Atlantis to make repairs while orbiting Earth.
• June 15: Schoolchildren hold Indian flags and portraits of Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams in Ahmadabad, India.
• Natalie Meilinger, her son Jack and the family's baby monitor, which has been mysteriously picking up black-and-white video feed from space shuttle Atlantis, at home in Palatine, Ill.
• June 13: In this image made available by NASA, astronauts Steven Swanson and Patrick Forrester (out of frame) participate in the mission's second planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station.
• June 13: In this image made available by NASA, astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson (out of frame) perform the mission's second planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station. Among other tasks, Forrester and Swanson removed all of the launch locks holding the 10-foot-wide solar alpha rotary joint in place and began the solar array retraction.
• June 12: Astronaut Sunita L. Williams uses a computer in the Unity node of the international space station.
• June 12: Astronauts and cosmonauts work in the Destiny laboratory aboard the international space station. Foreground, left to right: Lee Archambault, Sunita L. Williams, Rick Sturckow and Steven Swanson. Background, left to right: Fyodor N. Yurchikhin, Clayton Anderson and Patrick Forrester.
• June 12: Atlantis astronaut Patrick Forrester floats through a hatch to space shuttle's middeck.
• June 12: A new set of solar panels is partly unfurled from the international space station.
• June 11: Astronaut Danny Olivas, top exits the airlock chamber as astronaut James Reilly stands by during their space walk outside the international space station.
• June 11: In this image provided by NASA, astronauts Jim Reilly and John Olivas , visible in Reilly's helmet reflection, participate in the mission's first planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction resumes on the international space station.
• June 10: In this image made from video provided by NASA, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen docked with the international space station in orbit, with the Earth seen above.
• June 10: In this image made from video provided by NASA, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen above the Earth during a back flip as it approaches the international space station in orbit .
• June 9: This image made from NASA TV shows a 4-inch (10-centimeter) gap in a heat-protecting blanket on shuttle Atlantis. The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis, satisfied that the gap in a heat-protecting blanket would not cause any problems, readied themselves for what NASA called a delicate ballet with the international space station.
• June 8: A long shot of space shuttle Atlantis lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• June 8: Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the pad at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Friday, June 8, 2007. Atlantis is on an 11-day mission to the International Space Station.
• June 8: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches from pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fl.
• June 8: The STS-117 Crew leaves the Operations and Checkout building for a trip to the launch pad.
• June 8: Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen on Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla.