Human Spaceflights

International Flight-No. 248

STS-116

Discovery (33)

USA

Patch STS-116 Patch STS-116 Celsius

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Patch STS-116 ISS-12A.1

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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:  10.12.2006
Launch time:  01:47 UT
Launch site:  Cape Canaveral (KSC)
Launch pad:  39-B
Altitude:  247 - 336 km
Inclination:  51,64°
Docking ISS:  11.12.2006, 22:12 UT
Undocking ISS:  19.12.2006, 22:10 UT
Landing date:  22.12.2006
Landing time:  22:32 UT
Landing site:  Cape Canaveral (KSC)

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Crew STS-116

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Crew

No.   Surname Given names Job Flight No. Duration Orbits
1 USA  Polansky  Mark Lewis "Roman"  CDR 2 12d 20h 44m  203 
2 USA  Oefelein  William Anthony "Bill"  PLT 1 12d 20h 44m  203 
3 USA  Patrick  Nicholas James MacDonald  MSP 1 12d 20h 44m  203 
4 USA  Curbeam  Robert Lee, Jr. "Beamer"  MSP 3 12d 20h 44m  203 
5 Sweden  Fuglesang  Arne Christer  MSP 1 12d 20h 44m  203 
6 USA  Higginbotham  Joan Elizabeth Miller  MSP 1 12d 20h 44m  203 
7 USA  Williams  Sunita Lyn "Suni"  Flight Engineer 1 194d 18h 02m  3062 

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1  Polansky
2  Oefelein
3  Patrick
4  Curbeam
5  Fuglesang
6  Higginbotham
7  Williams
Space Shuttle cockpit
Landing
1  Polansky
2  Oefelein
3  Higginbotham
4  Curbeam
5  Fuglesang
6  Patrick
7  Reiter

Backup Crew

No.   Surname Given names Job
7 USA  Anderson  Clayton Conrad  Flight Engineer
Clayton Anderson

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Flight

Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing at Cape Canaveral (KSC); ISS-20-12A.1 SH-LSM ITS-P5; mission Celsius.

Docking to ISS and common work with the ISS expedition 14; transfer Williams to ISS and Reiter to the crew of STS-116.

First EVA by Curbeam and Fuglesang on 12.12.2006 (6h 36m) to align and connect the P5 truss segment to P4; second EVA by Curbeam and Fuglesang on 14.12.2006 (5h 00m) to reconfigure power on channels 2 and 3 of the station's electrical system; third EVA by Curbeam and Williams on 16.12.2006 (7h 31m) to reconfigure power on channels 1 and 4 of the station's electrical system; fourth and unplanned EVA by Curbeam and Fuglesang on 18.12.2006 (6h 38m) to fully retract the array.

Note

Williams landed on 22.06.2007 at 19:49 UT with STS-117.

Photos / Drawings

Space Shuttle P 5 Truss
ISS after STS-116 STS-116 rollout
STS-116 on launch pad STS-116 launch
EVA Curbeam and Fuglesang EVA Curbeam
ISS after STS-116 STS-116 in orbit
traditional in-flight photo STS-116 STS-116 landing

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