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STS-116 (Flight # 117) 10 - 22 December 2006

Discovery (33)

Crew:
    Mark Polansky [2], Commander
    William Oefelein [1], Pilot
    Robert Curbeam [3], Mission Specialist
    Joan Higginbotham [1], Mission Specialist
    Nicholas Patrick [1], Mission Specialist
    Christer Fuglesang [1], Mission Specialist (Sweden/ESA)

ISS Upload:
    Sunita Lyn Williams [1]

ISS Download:
    Thomas Reiter (Germany/ESA)

Launch:
    Pad: 39-B (53)
    Date: 10 December 2006
    Time: 01:47:35 UTC

Orbit:
    Altitude: 122 nm
    Inclination: 51.6 degrees
    Orbits: 204
    Duration: 12 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes,  17 seconds
    Distance:  5.3 million miles

Landing:
    Location: Runway 15, Kennedy Space Center, FL (64)
    Date: 22 December 2006
    Time: 22:32:52 UTC
    Rollout: 52 seconds

Highlights:
    20th Space Station Assembly Flight 12A.1, ITS P5. A total of 4 spacewalks were performed. The 4th and final spacewalk was unscheduled and made to stow an unused solar array.

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