Shuttle Crew Begins Final Preparations

Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

STS-116 crew members, from left, Pilot William Oefelein, European Space Agency Mission Specialist Christer Fuglesang, of Sweden, Commander Mark Polansky, Mission Specialist Robert Curbeam, British born U.S. Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick, Mission Specialist Joan Higginbotham, and Mission Specialist Sunita Williams, walk across the tarmac after arriving Sunday afternoon Dec. 3, 2006 at the Kennedy Space Center's shuttle landing facility in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The seven members STS-116 crew is making final preparations for Thursday night's planned liftoff on the space shuttle Discovery.(AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

(AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery's seven astronauts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Sunday for a final stretch of training and preparations before they are launched on a 12-day mission to rewire the international space station.

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