STS-116

space shuttle mission

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Fuglesang

  • Fuglesang, Christer
    In Christer Fuglesang

    …on his first space mission, STS-116, aboard the space shuttle Discovery on December 9, 2006. The mission (named “Celsius” by ESA in honour of Anders Celsius, the 18th-century Swedish astronomer) took the astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for an assembly and crew-rotation assignment. During the 13-day mission, Fuglesang

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Williams

  • Sunita Williams
    In Sunita Williams

    space shuttle Discovery on the STS-116 mission to the ISS, where she was a flight engineer for Expeditions 14 and 15. During her stay at the space station, she made four space walks, totaling more than 29 hours outside the spacecraft, and spent a total of more than 195 days…

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