Year in Pictures Out: There's a limit to how many spacewalking images can join the Year in Pictures. This one didn't make it, but it's still a great view.

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Backdropped by a colorful Earth, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (L) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station, on December 12, 2006.