Space Shuttle Discovery flew STS-116, the first night shuttle launch since 2002, delivering and installing the ISS P5 truss segment and rewiring the station's power system; the crew included Christer Fuglesang, the first Scandinavian astronaut.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 21.3 T
- Flight
- 117th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 2006, 01:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2006-055
- Launches in 2006
- 58th of 66
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