Christer Fuglesang in recognition of Anders Celsius, the Swedish 18th century astronomer who invented the Celsius temperature scale. Total EVA time during STS-116: 18 hours and 15 minutes. Fuglesang, once a Swedish national Frisbee champion, held the national title in "maximum time aloft" in 1978, and subsequently competed in the 1981 World Frisbee Championship. Fuglesang took one of his personal frisbees to the International Space Station. On Dec 15 in 2006, he set a new "world record" for Time Aloft by freefloating a spinning frisbee for 20 seconds in the microgravity environment of the ISS. It was done during a live broadcast
Thomas Henderson (astronomer) is not recorded on the Adie grave; Adie himself died 14 years after Henderson. A blue plaque is installed on his house at 1 Hillside Crescent. It refers to him as "Thomas J. A. Henderson", similar to middle names wrongly added to Wikipedia around 2007. A larger memorial (naming him "Thomas Henderson") is incorporated in the external wall of the City Observatory. Thomas Henderson (astronomer) Thomas Henderson FRSE FRS FRAS (28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844) was a Scottish astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of