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F\u00f6r 23 \u00e5r sedan blev Ulf Merbold den f\u00f6rsta ESA-astronauten att flyga ut i rymden. Sedan dess har astronauter fr\u00e5n m\u00e5nga av ESA:s medlemsl\u00e4nder f\u00f6ljt i Merbolds fotsp\u00e5r. Nu, efter 14 \u00e5rs v\u00e4ntan, \u00e4r det Christer Fuglesangs tur \u2013 den f\u00f6rsta svensken som ska g\u00e5 i omloppsbana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rymdf\u00e4rjan STS-116 lyfte fr\u00e5n Cape Canaveral i Florida den 9 december (lokal tid) med Fuglesang och sex kollegor fr\u00e5n NASA ombord. Efter en tv\u00e5 dagars l\u00e5ng flygning dockade Discovery med den internationella rymdstationen. Astronauterna h\u00e4lsades varmt v\u00e4lkomna av stationens bes\u00e4ttning p\u00e5 tre personer, d\u00e4ribland ESA-astronauten Thomas Reiter.<\/p>\n

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Bild p\u00e5 ISS efter att STS-115 kopplats loss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Huvudsyftet med bes\u00f6ket \u00e4r att forts\u00e4tta bygga den enorma och komplexa rymdstationen. Fuglesang kommer att spela en nyckelroll genom att delta i tv\u00e5 av de tre rymdpromenader som planeras under uppdraget. Den 12 december kommer han att l\u00e4mna stationen tillsammans med Robert Curbeam f\u00f6r en sex timmar l\u00e5ng rymdpromenad i syfte att installera ett nytt fackverkssegment. Detta kommer s\u00e5 sm\u00e5ningom att bli platsen f\u00f6r fyra solpaneler som kommer att flyttas dit n\u00e4sta sommar.<\/p>\n

Samma duo kommer att genomf\u00f6ra ytterligare en 6-timmars rymdpromenad den 14 december. Den h\u00e4r g\u00e5ngen ska de \u00f6ka stationens energif\u00f6rs\u00f6rjning genom att ansluta en upps\u00e4ttning nya solpaneler och kylfl\u00e4nsar. Dessa enorma komponenter levererades i september f\u00f6rra \u00e5ret med en annan rymdf\u00e4rja.<\/p>\n

Under sitt 12-dagars \u201cCelsius\u201d-uppdrag \u2013 uppkallat efter en ber\u00f6md svensk forskare \u2013 kommer Fuglesang \u00e4ven att genomf\u00f6ra en rad vetenskapliga experiment. Och den f\u00f6re detta frisbeem\u00e4staren hoppas kunna utnyttja den tyngdl\u00f6sa milj\u00f6n f\u00f6r att sl\u00e5 tidsrekordet f\u00f6r en flygande frisbee.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

23 years ago, Ulf Merbold became the first ESA astronaut to fly in space. Since then, astronauts from many of ESA\u2019s member states have followed in Merbold\u2019s footsteps. Now, after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2006\/12\/thomas_reiter_and_christer_fuglesang_on_board_iss2\/17866896-3-eng-GB\/Thomas_Reiter_and_Christer_Fuglesang_on_board_ISS.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Thomas Reiter and Christer Fuglesang on board ISS","esa_banner_credit":"NASA TV","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2006\/12\/Thomas_Reiter_and_Christer_Fuglesang_on_board_ISS2","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[28,10,13],"tags":[],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronauts","category-learn","category-life-in-space"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}