The Astronauts for Shuttle flight STS-116 arrived today (Sunday Dec 3) for their flight which should launch on Thursday Dec 7 at about 9:40 pm local time, for the first night launch since before the 2003 Columbia Disaster.
Photo by Spaceweekly editor Arthur J. Byrnes.
Left to right in the picture are;
Joan Higginbotham, William Oefelien, Robert Curbeam, Christer Fuglesang, Nicholas Patrick, Suni Williams, and Mark Polansky