Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, is a British-American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fourth person born in the United Kingdom to
Nicholas Patrick 2009
Nicholas Patrick on STS-130 is pictured outside the Cupola
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
Nicholas Patrick
…Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick (born 19 November 1964), is a British-American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fourth person born in the United Kingdom to go into space. Patrick was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea in the North Riding of Yorkshire…
Discovery's Canadarm hands the P5 truss segment to Canadarm2, prior to its installation on the ISS.
Back (L-R): Curbeam, Patrick, Williams, Fuglesang Front (L-R): Oefelein, Higginbotham, PolanskySpace Shuttle program← STS-115STS-117 →
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.