STS-116 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:02:16 1 Crew
00:02:25 1.1 Crew notes
00:02:44 2 Mission highlights
00:05:26 2.1 Mission notes
00:06:17 2.2 Final Assembly Power Converter Unit mission for iDiscovery/i
00:08:25 3 Mission payloads
00:09:30 4 Mission background
00:13:30 5 Mission timeline
00:13:40 5.1 7 December (Launch attempt 1)
00:14:45 5.2 9 December (Flight day 1 – Launch)
00:16:23 5.3 10 December (Flight day 2)
00:17:31 5.4 11 December (Flight day 3 – Docking to ISS)
00:18:58 5.5 12 December (Flight day 4 – EVA #1)
00:22:24 5.6 13 December (Flight day 5 – Solar Array Reorganization)
00:24:07 5.7 14 December (Flight day 6 – EVA #2)
00:25:30 5.8 15 December (Flight day 7)
00:26:47 5.9 16 December (Flight day 8 – EVA #3)
00:28:36 5.10 17 December (Flight day 9)
00:29:25 5.11 18 December (Flight day 10 – EVA #4)
00:30:19 5.12 19 December (Flight day 11 – Undocking)
00:31:17 5.13 20 December (Flight day 12)
00:32:36 5.14 21 December (Flight day 13)
00:33:33 5.15 22 December (Flight day 14 – Landing)
00:35:56 6 Contingency planning
00:36:06 6.1 STS-301
00:37:24 6.2 STS-317
00:38:15 7 Wake-up calls
00:41:00 7.1 Extra-vehicular activity
00:41:10 8 See also



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SUMMARY
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STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle  Discovery. Discovery lifted off on 9 December 2006 at 20:47:35 EST. A previous launch attempt on 7 December had been canceled due to cloud cover. It was the first night launch of a space shuttle since STS-113 in November 2002.The mission is also referred to as ISS-12A.1 by the ISS program. The main goals of the mission were delivery and attachment of the International Space Station's P5 truss segment, a major rewiring of the station's power system, and exchange of ISS Expedition 14 personnel. The shuttle landed at 17:32 EST on 22 December 2006 at Kennedy Space Center 98 minutes off schedule due to unfavorable weather conditions. This mission was particularly notable to Sweden, being the first spaceflight of a Scandinavian astronaut (Christer Fuglesang).
STS-116 was the final scheduled space shuttle launch from Pad 39B as NASA reconfigured it for Ares I launches. The only remaining use of Pad 39B by the shuttle was as a reserve for the STS-400 Launch On Need mission to rescue the crew of STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, if their shuttle became damaged.After STS-116, Discovery entered a period of maintenance. Its next mission would be STS-120 starting on 23 October 2007.