Spaceflight mission report: STS-116

Human Spaceflights

International Flight-No. 248 STS-116 Discovery (33) USA
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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)

Crew

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

Landing
1	Polansky
2	Oefelein
3	Higginbotham
4	Curbeam
5	Fuglesang
6	Patrick
7	Reiter

Backup Crew

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

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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.