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STS-128
- Launched
- Aug 29, 2009 · 03:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- From
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Destination
- International Space Station
- Landed
- Sep 12, 2009
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Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle...
Spaceflights
2
Time in space
26days
Spacewalks
5
Spacewalking
31 h 53 m
in total
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STS-116 EVA 1
Dec 12, 2006
STS-116 EVA 2
Dec 14, 2006
STS-116 EVA 4
Dec 18, 2006
STS-128 EVA 2
Sep 3, 2009
STS-128 EVA 3
Sep 5, 2009
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Success· Flight 1
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William OefeleinNASA
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Nicholas PatrickNASA
Robert CurbeamNASA
Sunita WilliamsNASAArne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space.
Married with three children, he was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join the European Astronaut Corps in 1992. He has participated in two Space Shuttle missions and five spacewalks, and is the first person outside of the United States or Russian space programs to participate in more than three spacewalks.
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