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ESA's first Swedish astronaut to fly to the ISS
11-30-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)ESA PR 41-2006. ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang is about to become the first Swedish and the first Nordic astronaut in space. During the night of 7/8 December, he will board NASA's Shuttle Discovery as Mission Specialist on flight STS-116.
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