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[sarex] Two Days Until Launch, Preparations Continue
SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
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> LAUNCH COVERAGE
> Space Shuttle Mission STS-116
>
> Orbiter: Discovery
> Mission: Space Station Assembly Building 12A.1
> Payload: P5 Integrated Truss Segment
> Launch Date: Dec. 7, 2006
> Launch Time: 9:35 p.m. EST
> Launch Pad: 39B
> Landing Date: Dec. 19, 2006
> Landing Time: 4:35 p.m. EST
> Mission Duration: 12 days
>
> Two Days Until Launch, Preparations Continue
>
> The STS-116 crew members pose for a photo at the Shuttle Landing
> Facility. Image above: The seven STS-116 crew members pose for a photo
> after arriving at Kennedy Space Center. From left are Mission
> Specialist Joan Higginbotham; Pilot Bill Oefelein; Mission Specialists
> Robert Curbeam, Christer Fuglesang and Nicholas Patrick; ISS
> Expedition 14 Flight Engineer Sunita Williams; and Commander Mark
> Polansky. Credit: NASA/KSC
> + View Larger Image(WEB
> SITE:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/index.html)
>
> Monday at 11 p.m. EST, NASA's countdown clock blinked to life at the
> T-43 hour mark and began ticking down toward the liftoff of Space
> Shuttle Discovery on a complex and challenging mission to the
> International Space Station.
>
> Led by Commander Mark Polansky, the seven crew members arrived at
> Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday afternoon. Polansky and
> Pilot Bill Oefelein spent part of Monday evening flying the Shuttle
> Training Aircraft (STA) and checking the fit of their orange launch
> and entry suits. They'll complete another STA flight tonight while
> Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam, Joan Higginbotham, Nicholas
> Patrick, Christer Fuglesang and Sunita Williams try on their suits.
>
> Liftoff is targeted for 9:35 p.m. Thursday -- the midpoint of a
> 10-minute launch window.
>
> The Launch Team
> Learn more about the NASA team that's responsible for the events that
> lead up to the liftoff of mission STS-116.
> + Meet the Launch Team
>
>
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