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| | | | | | | ESA astronaut returns to Earth with Columbus lab experiment
12 September 2009
| Landing of Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of the STS-128 mission. Discovery touched down at Edwards Air Force Base at 02:53 CEST on 12 September 2009. The STS-128 crew included ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang.
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| | | | | ISS020-E-038507 (5 Sept. 2009) --- ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, STS-128 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the seven-hour, one-minute spacewalk, Fuglesang and NASA astronaut John 'Danny' Olivas (out of frame), mission specialist, deployed the Payload Attachment System (PAS), replaced the Rate Gyro Assembly #2, installed two GPS antennae and did some work to prepare for the installation of Node 3 next year. During connection of one of two sets of avionics cables for Node 3, one of the connectors could not be mated. This cable and connector were wrapped in a protective sleeve and safed. All other cables were mated successfully.
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| ESA astronauts Frank De Winne (left) and Christer Fuglesang inside the International Space Station's Quest Airlock. Fuglesang visited the Station for 9 days as STS-128 mission specialist for the Alissé mission. On arrival at the Station, Fuglesang met up with De Winne a member of the resident ISS Expedition 20 crew since starting his six-month OasISS mission in May 2009.
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| | | | | S128-E-009793 (8 Sept. 2009) --- Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation. Earlier the STS-128 and Expedition 20 crews concluded nearly nine days of cooperative work. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 21:26 CEST on 8 September 2009.
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| | | | Frank De Winne remains in space
| S128-E-007702 (5 Sept. 2009) --- ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, STS-128 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the seven-hour, one-minute spacewalk, Fuglesang and NASA astronaut John 'Danny' Olivas (out of frame), mission specialist, deployed the Payload Attachment System (PAS), replaced the Rate Gyro Assembly #2, installed two GPS antennae and did some work to prepare for the installation of Node 3 next year. During connection of one of two sets of avionics cables for Node 3, one of the connectors could not be mated. This cable and connector were wrapped in a protective sleeve and safed. All other cables were mated successfully.
Credits: NASA | | | | |
| | | | | S128-E-007445 (2 Sept. 2009) --- ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, STS-128 mission specialist, is pictured floating freely in the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), temporarily attached to the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station.
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