With the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis delayed, activities for the International Space Station crew were replanned.

The crew initially expected to greet Atlantis' crew this week. But the shuttle is now set to launch Sept. 6 on mission STS-115 to bring a new truss section to the station, complete with a second set of 240-foot solar wings. The mission was originally planned to launch Aug. 27. It was postponed first to check possible lightning damage and then due to Tropical Storm Ernesto. The delay gave Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter of Germany more time to prepare for Atlantis' mission. They packed items that will be returned to Earth and eviewed plans for the shuttle flight's three spacewalks. They also conducted normal station maintenance, daily exercise sessions and a number of scientific experiments.

As launch preparations resumed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B on Thursday, mission managers set Sept. 6 as the new date for the launch of Atlantis on Mission STS-115 to the International Space Station. Liftoff time would be 12:29 p.m. EDT.(1629 UTC)(1729 GMT)
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