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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span title="Christer Fuglesang"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Swedish</span></span><br /></em>Christer Fuglesang<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="ESA Astronaut">ESA-astronauten<br /><br /></span><span title="PERSONAL DATA: Born 18 March 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden.">PERSONUPPGIFTER: F&ouml;dd 18 mars 1957 i Stockholm, Sverige. </span><span title="Married to the former Elisabeth Walldie.">Gift med Elisabeth, f&ouml;dd Walldie. </span><span title="They have three children.">De har tre barn. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="Christer enjoys sports, sailing, skiing, frisbee, games and reading.">Christer gillar sport, segling, skid&aring;kning, frisbee, spel och l&auml;sning.<br /><br /></span><span title="EDUCATION: Graduated from Bromma Gymnasium, Stockholm in 1975 and received a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, in 1981.">UTBILDNING: Examen fr&aring;n Bromma Gymnasium, Stockholm 1975 och fick en civilingenj&ouml;rsexamen i teknisk fysik fr&aring;n Kungliga Tekniska H&ouml;gskolan (KTH), Stockholm, 1981. </span><span title="He received a Doctorate in experimental particle physics in 1987 and became a Docent in particle physics in 1991 at the University of Stockholm.">Disputerade i experimentell partikelfysik 1987 och blev docent i partikelfysik 1991 vid Stockholms universitet. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="He was appointed Affiliated Professor at KTH in 2006.">Han uts&aring;gs till affilierad professor p&aring; KTH &aring;r 2006.<br /><br /></span><span title="SPECIAL HONORS: Honorary Doctorate from Ume University, Sweden (1999).">SPECIAL utm&auml;rkelser: hedersdoktor vid Ume Universitet, Sverige (1999). </span><span title="Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2007).">Hedersdoktor vid universitetet i Nova Gorica, Slovenien (2007). </span><span title="NASA Space Flight Medal (2007).">NASA Space Flight Medal (2007). </span><span title="H.M.">H.M. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="The Kings Medal (Stockholm, 2007).">The Kings medalj (Stockholm, 2007).<br /><br /></span><span title="EXPERIENCE: As a graduate student, Fuglesang worked at the European Research Centre on Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva on the UA5 experiment, which studied proton-antiproton collisions.">ERFARENHET: Som doktorand arbetade Fuglesang vid den europeiska forskningscentret f&ouml;r partikelfysik (CERN) i Geneve med UA5 experimentet, som studerade proton-antiproton kollisioner. </span><span title="In 1988, he became a Fellow of CERN, where he worked on the CPLEAR experiment studying the subtle CP-violation of Kaon-particles.">&Aring;r 1988 blev han en CERN Fellow, d&auml;r han arbetade p&aring; CPLEAR experiment studier om det subtila CP-brottet av Kaon-partiklar. </span><span title="After a year he became a Senior Fellow and head of the particle identification subdetector.">Efter ett &aring;r blev han Senior Fellow och chef f&ouml;r partikelidentifieringssubdetektorn. </span><span title="In November 1990, Fuglesang obtained a position at the Manne Siegbahn Institute of Physics, Stockholm, but remained stationed at CERN for another year working towards the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project.">I november 1990 fick Fuglesang en position vid Manne Siegbahn-institutet f&ouml;r fysik i Stockholm men f&ouml;rblev stationerad vid CERN under ytterligare ett &aring;r arbetade f&ouml;r det nya Large Hadron Collider (LHC) projekt. </span></span></span></span><span title="Since 1980, (when stationed in Sweden) Fuglesang taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)."><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Sedan 1980 (d&aring; han varit stationerad i Sverige) Fuglesang undervisat i matematik vid Kungliga Tekniska H&ouml;gskolan (KTH).<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="In May 1992, Fuglesang was selected to join the European Astronaut Corps based at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany.">I maj 1992 var Fuglesang till den europeiska astronautk&aring;ren baserade p&aring; European Astronaut Centre (EAC) i K&ouml;ln, Tyskland.<br /><br /></span><span title="In 1992, he followed the introductory training programme at EAC and a four-week training programme at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, with a view to future ESA-Russian collaboration on the Mir space station.">&Aring;r 1992 genomgick han ett inledande tr&auml;ningsprogram vid EAC och ett fyra veckor l&aring;ngt tr&auml;ningsprogram vid Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) i Star City, Ryssland, med tanke p&aring; framtida ESA-ryska samarbetet p&aring; rymdstationen Mir. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="In July 1993, he completed basic training at EAC.">I juli 1993 avslutade han grundutbildningen vid EAC.<br /><br /></span><span title="In May 1993, Fuglesang and fellow ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter were selected for the Euromir 95 mission and commenced training at GCTC in preparation for their flight engineer tasks, extravehicular activities (spacewalks) and operation of the Soyuz spacecraft.">I maj 1993 blev Christer Fuglesang och hans ESA-astronauten Thomas Reiter ut till Euromir 95-uppdraget och b&ouml;rjade tr&auml;na vid GCTC inf&ouml;r sina uppgifter flygingenj&ouml;r, aktiviteter under rymdpromenader (rymdpromenader) och drift av rymdfarkosten Soyuz. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="The Euromir 95 experiment training was organized and mainly carried out at EAC.">F&ouml;r Euromir 95 utbildning organiserades och utf&ouml;rdes i huvudsak vid EAC.<br /><br /></span><span title="On March 17, 1995, he was selected as member of Crew 2 for the Euromir 95 mission, joining Gennadi Manakov and Pavel Vinogradov.">Den 17 mars 1995, var han valdes till medlem av bes&auml;ttning 2 f&ouml;r Euromir 95-uppdraget tillsammans med Genadi Manakov och Pavel Vinogradov. </span><span title="During the mission, that lasted from September 3 to February 29, 1996, Fuglesang was the prime Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC).">Under uppdraget, som varade fr&aring;n 3 September - 29 februari 1996, Fuglesang var &ouml;verordnad Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC). </span><span title="From the Russian Mission Control Centre (TsUP) in Kaliningrad, he was the main contact with ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter on Mir, and acted as coordinator between Mir and the Euromir 95 Payloads Operations Control Centre, located in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and the project management">Fr&aring;n den ryska markkontrollen (TsUP) i Kaliningrad var han den huvudsakliga kontakten med ESA-astronauten Thomas Reiter p&aring; Mir, och agerade som samordnare mellan Mir och Euromir 95 hanteringsvikt Operations Control Centre, bel&auml;get i Oberpfaffenhofen, Tyskland, och projektledningen </span></span></span></span><span title="."><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="Between March and June 1996, he underwent specialized training on Soyuz operations for undocking, atmospheric reentry and landing.">Mellan mars och juni 1996 genomgick han specialtr&auml;ning p&aring; Soyuz-farkosten f&ouml;r avdockning, &aring;terintr&auml;de i atmosf&auml;ren och landning.<br /><br /></span><span title="NASA EXPERIENCE: In August 1996, Fuglesang entered the Mission Specialist Class at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston.">NASA-erfarenhet: I augusti 1996 ingick Fuglesang som uppdragsspecialist vid NASA: s Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="He qualified for flight assignment as a Mission Specialist in April 1998.">Han kvalificerade sig f&ouml;r flyguppdrag som uppdragsspecialist i april 1998.<br /><br /></span><span title="From May to October 1998, he resumed training at GCTC on Soyuz-TM spacecraft operations for undocking, atmospheric reentry and landing.">Fr&aring;n maj till oktober 1998 &aring;terupptog han sin tr&auml;ning vid GCTC p&aring; rymdfarkosten Soyuz-TM f&ouml;r avdockning, &aring;terintr&auml;de i atmosf&auml;ren och landning. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="He was awarded the Russian 'Soyuz Return Commander' certificate, which qualifies him to command a three-person Soyuz capsule on its return from space.">Han bel&ouml;nades med rysk Soyuz Return Commander, vilket g&ouml;r att han att befalla en tre personer Soyuz-kapsel n&auml;r den &aring;terv&auml;nder fr&aring;n rymden.<br /><br /></span><span title="In October 1998, he returned to JSC and was assigned to technical duties in the Astronaut Office.">I oktober 1998 &aring;terv&auml;nde han till NASA-JSC och tilldelades tekniska uppgifter vid Astronaut Office. </span><span title="He worked with Russian Transfer Vehicles (ie Soyuz and Progress) and then as prime Increment Crew Support Astronaut for the Expedition Corps of the second International Space Station increment crew.">Han arbetade med de ryska farkosterna (Soyuz och Progress) och sedan som &ouml;verordnad Increment Crew Support Astronaut f&ouml;r Expedition k&aring;r av andra internationella rymdstationens expanderande bes&auml;ttning. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="He later worked with upcoming payloads for ISS and most recently with extravehicular activities.">Han arbetade senare med framtida nyttolaster till ISS och nu senast med aktiviteter under rymdpromenader.<br /><br /></span><span title="Fuglesang has continued with some scientific work and was involved with the SilEye experiment which investigated light flashes in astronauts eyes on Mir between 1995 and 1999.">Fuglesang har fortsatt med visst vetenskapligt arbete och var involverad i SilEye experimentet som unders&ouml;kte ljusblixtar i astronauternas &ouml;gon p&aring; Mir mellan 1995 och 1999. </span><span title="This work is continuing on ISS with the Alteino detector and the ALTEA facility.">Detta arbete forts&auml;tter p&aring; ISS med Alteino detektorn och ALTEA-anl&auml;ggningen. </span><span title="He has also initiated the DESIRE Project to simulate and estimate the radiation environment inside ISS.">Han har ocks&aring; startat DESIRE-projektet som simulerar och ber&auml;knar str&aring;lningen inuti ISS. </span><span title="In February 2002, he was assigned as a Mission Specialist to the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.">I februari 2002 uts&aring;gs han som uppdragsspecialist p&aring; STS-116 rymdf&auml;rjan uppdraget till den internationella rymdstationen. </span></span></span></span><span title="In July 2008, Fuglesang was assigned as Mission Specialist on the STS-128 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station."><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">I juli 2008 blev Fuglesang tilldelades som uppdragsspecialist p&aring; STS-128 rymdf&auml;rjan uppdraget till den internationella rymdstationen.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="A veteran of two spaceflights, Christer Fuglesang has logged over 641 hours in space, including 5 EVAs (spacewalks) totaling 31 hours and 54 minutes.">En veteran med tv&aring; rymdf&auml;rder, har Christer Fuglesang loggat &ouml;ver 641 timmar i rymden, inklusive 5 EVA (rymdpromenader) p&aring; totalt 31 timmar och 54 minuter.<br /><br /></span><span title="SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: From December 9-22, 2006, Christer Fuglesang flew as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-116 to the International Space Station.">SPACE Flight Experience: fr&aring;n December 9-22, 2006, fl&ouml;g Christer Fuglesang som uppdragsspecialist p&aring; rymdf&auml;rjan Discovery p&aring; STS-116 till den internationella rymdstationen. </span><span title="He became the first Swedish astronaut to fly in space.">Han blev den f&ouml;rsta svenska astronaut att flyga i rymden. </span><span title="During his mission, named Celsius, Fuglesang participated in two spacewalks, or extravehicular activities (EVAs), to attach new hardware to the ISS and to reconfigure the Station's electrical power system.">Under sitt uppdrag namnet Celsius, deltog Fuglesang i tv&aring; rymdpromenader, eller aktiviteter under rymdpromenader (EVA), f&ouml;r att f&auml;sta ny h&aring;rdvara till ISS och att konfigurera om stationens elektriska system. </span><span title="He was later assigned to participate in an extra unscheduled spacewalk to help free the Station's P6 solar array which had become jammed during retraction.">Han var ut f&ouml;r att g&ouml;ra en extra, oplanerad rymdpromenad f&ouml;r att hj&auml;lpa fria stationens P6 solpanelen som hade fastnat under upprullning. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span title="His total EVA time during the STS-116 mission was 18 hours 14 minutes.">Hans totala EVA tid under STS-116 var 18 timmar och 14 minuter.<br /><br /></span><span title="Fuglesang participated in his second spaceflight from August 29 to September 12, 2009 as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-128 to the International Space Station.">Fuglesang deltog i sin andra rymdflygning fr&aring;n 29 augusti - 12 september 2009 som uppdragsspecialist p&aring; rymdf&auml;rjan Discovery p&aring; STS-128 till den internationella rymdstationen. </span><span title="During his mission, named Aliss, Fuglesang undertook two spacewalks.">Under sitt uppdrag som namnges Aliss genomf&ouml;rde Fuglesang tv&aring; rymdpromenader. </span><span title="His tasks included the installation of a new ammonia tank assembly and preparation work for the installation of the European-built Node 3 module.">Hans uppgifter ingick att installera en ny ammoniaktank och f&ouml;rberedelser f&ouml;r installation av den europeiska Nod 3 modul. </span><span title="His total EVA time during the STS-128 mission was 13 hours and 40 minutes, bringing his cumulative EVA time to date to 31 hours and 54 minutes."><span title="Fuglesang was also responsible for overseeing cargo transfers from the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) that was transported in Discovery's payload bay.">Fuglesang var ocks&aring; ansvar f&ouml;r tillsyn last &ouml;verf&ouml;ringar fr&aring;n Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) som transporteras i Discoverys lastrum. </span><span title="He also undertook experiment, educational and public relations activities as part of the Aliss Mission.">Han genomf&ouml;rde ocks&aring; experiment, utbildnings-och PR-aktiviteter som en del av Aliss uppdraget.</span></span></span></span></span></p>FalsePublicTrue
 
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">English</span><br /></span></span></em>Christer Fuglesang<br />ESA Astronaut</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>PERSONAL DATA:</strong> Born 18 March 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden. Married to the former Elisabeth Walldie. They have three children. Christer enjoys sports, sailing, skiing, frisbee, games and reading.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>EDUCATION:</strong> Graduated from Bromma Gymnasium, Stockholm in 1975 and received a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, in 1981. He received a Doctorate in experimental particle physics in 1987 and became a Docent in particle physics in 1991 at the University of Stockholm. He was appointed Affiliated Professor at KTH in 2006.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>SPECIAL HONORS:</strong> Honorary Doctorate from Ume University, Sweden (1999). Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2007). NASA Space Flight Medal (2007). H.M. The Kings Medal (Stockholm, 2007).</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>EXPERIENCE:</strong> As a graduate student, Fuglesang worked at the European Research Centre on Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva on the UA5 experiment, which studied proton-antiproton collisions. In 1988, he became a Fellow of CERN, where he worked on the CPLEAR experiment studying the subtle CP-violation of Kaon-particles. After a year he became a Senior Fellow and head of the particle identification subdetector. In November 1990, Fuglesang obtained a position at the Manne Siegbahn Institute of Physics, Stockholm, but remained stationed at CERN for another year working towards the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. Since 1980, (when stationed in Sweden) Fuglesang taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">In May 1992, Fuglesang was selected to join the European Astronaut Corps based at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">In 1992, he followed the introductory training programme at EAC and a four-week training programme at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, with a view to future ESA-Russian collaboration on the Mir space station. In July 1993, he completed basic training at EAC.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">In May 1993, Fuglesang and fellow ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter were selected for the Euromir 95 mission and commenced training at GCTC in preparation for their flight engineer tasks, extravehicular activities (spacewalks) and operation of the Soyuz spacecraft. The Euromir 95 experiment training was organized and mainly carried out at EAC.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">On March 17, 1995, he was selected as member of Crew 2 for the Euromir 95 mission, joining Gennadi Manakov and Pavel Vinogradov. During the mission, that lasted from September 3 to February 29, 1996, Fuglesang was the prime Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC). From the Russian Mission Control Centre (TsUP) in Kaliningrad, he was the main contact with ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter on Mir, and acted as coordinator between Mir and the Euromir 95 Payloads Operations Control Centre, located in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and the project management.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Between March and June 1996, he underwent specialized training on Soyuz operations for undocking, atmospheric reentry and landing.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>NASA EXPERIENCE:</strong> In August 1996, Fuglesang entered the Mission Specialist Class at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston. He qualified for flight assignment as a Mission Specialist in April 1998.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">From May to October 1998, he resumed training at GCTC on Soyuz-TM spacecraft operations for undocking, atmospheric reentry and landing. He was awarded the Russian 'Soyuz Return Commander' certificate, which qualifies him to command a three-person Soyuz capsule on its return from space.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">In October 1998, he returned to JSC and was assigned to technical duties in the Astronaut Office. He worked with Russian Transfer Vehicles (i.e. Soyuz and Progress) and then as prime Increment Crew Support Astronaut for the Expedition Corps of the second International Space Station increment crew. He later worked with upcoming payloads for ISS and most recently with extravehicular activities.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Fuglesang has continued with some scientific work and was involved with the SilEye experiment which investigated light flashes in astronauts eyes on Mir between 1995 and 1999. This work is continuing on ISS with the Alteino detector and the ALTEA facility. He has also initiated the DESIRE Project to simulate and estimate the radiation environment inside ISS. In February 2002, he was assigned as a Mission Specialist to the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station. In July 2008, Fuglesang was assigned as Mission Specialist on the STS-128 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">A veteran of two spaceflights, Christer Fuglesang has logged over 641 hours in space, including 5 EVAs (spacewalks) totaling 31 hours and 54 minutes.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE:</strong> From December 9-22, 2006, Christer Fuglesang flew as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-116 to the International Space Station. He became the first Swedish astronaut to fly in space. During his mission, named Celsius, Fuglesang participated in two spacewalks, or extravehicular activities (EVAs), to attach new hardware to the ISS and to reconfigure the Station's electrical power system. He was later assigned to participate in an extra unscheduled spacewalk to help free the Station's P6 solar array which had become jammed during retraction. His total EVA time during the STS-116 mission was 18 hours 14 minutes.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Fuglesang participated in his second spaceflight from August 29 to September 12, 2009 as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-128 to the International Space Station. During his mission, named Aliss, Fuglesang undertook two spacewalks. His tasks included the installation of a new ammonia tank assembly and preparation work for the installation of the European-built Node 3 module. His total EVA time during the STS-128 mission was 13 hours and 40 minutes, bringing his cumulative EVA time to date to 31 hours and 54 minutes. Fuglesang was also responsible for overseeing cargo transfers from the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) that was transported in Discovery's payload bay. He also undertook experiment, educational and public relations activities as part of the Aliss Mission.</span></span></span></p>FalsePublicTrue
 
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