Mark L. Polansky
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Mark Lewis Polansky is an American aerospace engineer and research pilot and a former NASA astronaut. Polansky received the nickname "Roman" as a joke, because he shares a last name with director Roma
Polansky in January 2001
STS-116
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STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off on December 9, 2006, for her 33rd flight at 20:47:35 EST. A previous launc
Mark L. Polansky
…received the nickname "Roman" as a joke, because he shares a last name with director Roman Polanski. He flew on three Space Shuttle missions: STS-98, STS-116, and STS-127 and was first person of Korean ancestry in space. Polansky's father, Irving, was Jewish. His mother, Edith, is originally from Hawaii and…
Discovery's Canadarm hands the P5 truss segment to Canadarm2, prior to its installation on the ISS.
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A photograph of the International Space Station after STS-116 with the new P5 truss segment
In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane moves the P5 truss for mission STS-116 to the payload transfer container.