Space Shuttle Discovery Night Launch STS-116 9 December 2006 HD

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STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Liftoff was originally scheduled for December 7, 2006, but that attempt was canceled due to a low cloud ceiling. Discovery successfully lifted off during the second launch attempt on Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 8:47:35 p.m. EST. It was the first night launch of a Space Shuttle orbiter since STS-113, which launched on November 23, 2002.[1]
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 third port truss segment (the P5 truss), major rewiring of the station's power system, and exchange of ISS Expedition 14 personnel. The shuttle landed at 5:32 p.m. EST on Friday, December 22, 2006 at Kennedy Space Center, a delay of 98 minutes from schedule due to unfavorable weather conditions. This mission was particularly notable to Sweden since it's the first time a Scandinavian astronaut (Christer Fuglesang) has visited space.
STS-116 was the final scheduled Space Shuttle flight planned for launch from Pad 39B as NASA reconfigures the pad for Ares I launches.[2] The only remaining use of Pad 39B by Shuttles is as a reserve for a potential STS-3xx rescue mission for STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.[3]
STS-116 was the last flight of Discovery before maintenance; the next Discovery mission was STS-120, which launched on October 23, 2007.

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[peterahjorter]

A memorable moment for all Swedes

[CascadeZ]

love it

[FREISTUDIOS]

I was there!  Awesome sight to behold at night.

[Eagle1Division2]

3:14

OOH NO! UFO'S!!! *panic*

I can imagine someone saying that.

But I think it's really cool how the SRB's disapear, then you can see them a little later - LIT BY THE SSME'S! From what's probably miles away.

1,000 mph in 22 seconds! Wow. I know a TON about the shuttle and other spacecraft, but I never realized that. That is just amazing!

[treasurecolector]

Off The Hook AirBoy :)

[alisamerflorin]

@HussamStands i have been in USA for about 2 years and i have work there as an electronics technician on Carnival Cruise Lines..I can show you the visa.the contracts.and so on..it is not bad ,but is going down day by day ..on my last ship i did not had screw drivers/ Remember the Carnival Splendor on fire and it did not had power at all for about one week ..and that is because of lack of professionalism .and it is happening all over United States.The corporation use more low qualified personnel

[HussamStands]

@alisamerflorin hahaha, what are you talking about dude? I knew that you won't be able to come with a better answer. You need to go and research what freedom is and what it means before you come here and yap about something that you never experienced. I don't think that any of the people in Eastern Europe can talk about freedom because it doesn't exist, never existed, will never exist either. You know that America is the most free and democratic country on this earth. it's not perfect though!

[alisamerflorin]

@HussamStands think about 9/11 ..and think twice ..how the towers fail in exactly the same way ?both coming down with the same speed as a rock falls down from that high?and why tower7?when tower7 was further than those small towers near the twins and those small towers did not fail ,they had to take them down with control demolition ...and tower7fail ?why?they did not mention it in the report !!! perhaps the laws of physics did not work in that day ?this was the sign of the end for your freedom!

[HussamStands]

@alisamerflorin How Russia is the greatest country? More poverty, prostitution, and uneducated fucks than the worst country in Africa, and a dictatorship fucked up government on top of all that. May be Russia is the greatest country in dictatorship. Only America is the real great country because it's the country where the most important thing is FREEDOM. Something very hard for you to understand if you never been in America!

[alisamerflorin]

Russia and United States of America ,the greatest country's Ever !!!

[minecraftman781]

awesome!