They're already up in space, and we can only wish this new group of astronauts well. On Saturday evening, NASA's space shuttle Discovery began its mission for the International Space Station (ISS): upgrading the ISS' power generation capabilities.

The 12-day mission, known as STS-116, tasks the crew with installing a new truss to the station that will allow future solar panels to rotate. Doing so will allow the ISS to make the most out of sunlight by allowing the panels to track the sun and keep picking up energy from it.

The mission will also be doing some work on the wiring of the ISS. The astronauts will be reconfiguring the power system, which will make the solar arrays delivered during the last mission fully operational. The rewiring will also allow for a permanent cooling system to be put in place on the station.

Lastly, they'll be doing a shift change in space. Thomas Reiter of the European Space Agency (ESA) will finally get to go home, as his shift in space is taken over by Sunita Williams, who'll be staying there for six months. Let's wish them all luck in this venture, shall we? That way, we can get hyperdrive before the 25th century and see some exotic alien people, like we were supposed to.