#sts-116

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SSME Start / STS-116 Discovery / Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B / December 9, 2006

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Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, STS-116 mission specialist, attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, awaits a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center.

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Backdropped by New Zealand, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction continues on the International Space Station, 12/12/2006 S116-E-05983 – NASA