The crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery leave the Operation and Check out building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Saturday Dec. 9, 2006. Front row: Mission specialist Joan Higginbotham, commander Mark Polansky. Second row: British born mission specialist Nicholas Patrick, pilot William Oefelein. Third row: Mission specialist Sunita Williams, European Space Agency astronaut, mission specialist Christer Fuglesang of Sweden . Last row: Mission specialist Robert Curbeam. STS-116 twelve day mission with service the International Space Station. Credit: AP Photo/Terry Renna. Click to enlarge.
