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38-456: The club is named after the City Park and borough Djurgården , which originally was a royal hunting park. A direct translation of Djurgården would be “the animal garden” or "the animal yard". The word djur means "animal" but has the same etymology as the word “deer”, meaning "deer garden" may have been its original meaning. The club was founded in 1891 by a group of young athletes living in

76-510: A Royal game park; in 1801, the theatre Djurgårdsteatern was opened, which was to be one of the most popular establishments there during the 19th century. King Charles XIV John 's creation of the Rosendal Palace in the 1820s marked the beginning of Djurgården's development as a stately residential area, paired with the creation of several entertainment establishments in the late 19th century, including Gröna Lund 1883, and Skansen 1891. At

114-457: A café just south of Skansen, in block Alberget, sports club Djurgårdens IF was founded on 12 March 1891. The western waterfront of the island was a small scale shipyard during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, after which the Navy erected some 30 sheds for the winter quarters of galleys in the area. The operations expanded during the 1870s when a dry dock was constructed. Plans to relocate

152-567: A certain borough of Stockholm, Djurgården is seen as more of a pan-Stockholm club. No reliable research exists about the spread of Djurgården supporters, but a 2015 T-shirt campaign suggests that supporters are spread fairly evenly throughout the Stockholm area. In 1981 the main supporter club "Blue Saints" was formed, but due to its notorious fans and their bad reputation, the supporter club changed its name to Järnkaminerna , literally "The Iron Furnaces" (an old nickname for Djurgården athletes from

190-620: A doctorate in experimental particle physics from Stockholm University in 1987. He became an associate professor ( docent ) of particle physics at Stockholm University in 1991. He married Elisabeth (Lisa) Fuglesang ( née Walldie) in 1983, whom he met at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). They have three children. Fuglesang is a prominent member of the Swedish skeptics association Vetenskap och Folkbildning and identifies strongly with skeptics and atheists. In 2012, Fuglesang received

228-702: A mission specialist for NASA Space Shuttle missions. He joined the Mission Specialist Class at NASA Johnson Space Center , Houston , in August 1996, and qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist in April 1998. From May to October 1998, he resumed training at TsPK on Soyuz-TM spacecraft operations for de-docking, atmospheric re-entry and landing. He was awarded the Russian Soyuz Return Commander certificate, which qualifies him to command

266-645: A position at the Manne Siegbahn Institute of Physics , Stockholm, but remained stationed at CERN for another year working towards the new Large Hadron Collider project. Since 1990, when stationed in Sweden, Fuglesang taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology. In May 1992, Fuglesang was selected to join the European Astronaut Corps of the European Space Agency (ESA) based at

304-415: A shield in yellow, red and blue with the text D.I.F. was adopted in 1896. According to an often-quoted poem by Johan af Klercker from 1908, blue and yellow stand for Sweden and red stands for love. Blue and yellow are also the colours of Stockholm and yellow, red and blue are the colors of the arms of Stockholm County. Yellow, red and blue are the club colours. The logo is registered as a trademark and

342-567: A three-person Soyuz capsule on its return from space. In October 1998, he returned to NASA and was assigned technical duties in the Station Operations System Branch of the NASA Astronaut Office, working on Russian Soyuz and Progress transfer vehicles. Later he worked as prime Increment Crew Support Astronaut for the second International Space Station expedition crew. Fuglesang also continued with some scientific work and

380-415: Is Norra Djurgården ( Northern Djurgården ), including Gärdet . Djurgården was until the 16th century known as Valmundsö and this name is still preserved in locations such as Waldemarsudde . Though several proposals to explain this name have been put forward, no authoritative explanation is generally accepted. While the name of King Valdemar (1239–1302) was probably associated with the old name during

418-570: Is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married with three children, he was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join the European Astronaut Corps in 1992. He has participated in two Space Shuttle missions and five spacewalks , and

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456-527: Is an island in central Stockholm , Sweden . Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund , the open-air museum Skansen , the small residential area Djurgårdsstaden , yacht harbours, and extensive stretches of forest and meadows. It is one of the Stockholmers' favorite recreation areas and tourist destinations alike, attracting over 10 million visitors per year, of which some 5 million come to visit

494-629: Is the first person outside of the United States or Russian space programs to participate in more than three spacewalks. Fuglesang was born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father, who became a Swedish citizen shortly before Fuglesang's birth. Fuglesang graduated from the Bromma Gymnasium , Stockholm in 1975, earned a master's degree in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Stockholm in 1981, and received

532-402: Is the most successful sports club in Sweden, it is also more championship titles than the two main rivals AIK and Hammarby have together. The first emblem of the club was a four-pointed silver star in saltire, which had a shield on it with the letters DIF. This star pre-dates the similar star which Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna adopted and is using to this day. The present emblem, in the form of

570-580: The Euromir 95 mission and commenced training at TsPK (Moscow) in preparation for their onboard engineer tasks, extra-vehicular activities (spacewalks) and operation of the Soyuz spacecraft . The Euromir 95 experiment training was organized and mainly carried out at EAC. On 17 March 1995 he was selected as a member of Crew 2, the backup crew for the Euromir 95 mission, joining Gennadi Manakov and Pavel Vinogradov . During

608-772: The European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne , Germany. In 1992 he attended an introductory training programme at EAC and a four-week training program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK) in Star City , Russia, with a view to future ESA–Russian collaboration on the Mir Space Station. In July 1993, he completed the basic astronaut training course at EAC. In May 1993, Fuglesang and fellow ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter were selected for

646-459: The 1680s however, and the neighbourhood was instead populated by a diverse crowd. Plans to demolish the "insignificant shacks" in front of the World Fair in 1897, and for a planned expansion of the naval shipyard in 1918, never were accomplished and the area is today protected as a historical monument. During the late 18th century, Djurgården transformed into more of a popular recreational area than

684-591: The 17th century, the separate elements of the original variations of the name might be interpreted as etymologically related to either Walm-und-ö - if walm is linked to the Anglo-Saxon words wielm , wylm , this would mean the original name should be interpreted as "The island outside of which the waves grow large" (an interpretation with no equivalents in other Nordic geographic names) - or Wal-mund-ö - which could possibly be interpreted as walder ("embankment", "grounds") and mun ("mouth"), i.e. "the grounds next to

722-454: The 1950s). Since 2005, Fabriken is Djurgården's TIFO group; they have two ultras groups: UCS (Ultra caos Stockholm) and Ultras Sthlm. Djurgården is probably one of a few clubs in the world who is represented both in space (by Christer Fuglesang ) and in the Himalayas (by Raul Helander). Through the years, many types of souvenirs and memorabilia has been made for the club. Stuffed toys in

760-579: 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 free-floating a spinning frisbee for 20 seconds in the microgravity environment of the ISS. It was done during a live broadcast interview with a space exhibition in Stockholm Sweden. The record attempt was recognised by

798-477: The 20th and 21st century. The club started playing association football in 1899 and soon started a derby rivalry with neighbouring club AIK, the so-called tvillingderbyt . Today the most popular sections are ice hockey and football , with 16 and 12 Swedish national championship titles respectively. Other popular sections are bandy , handball and floorball . The club has won 470 Swedish championships in 25 different sports through 2023, with this Djurgården

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836-511: The International Space Station. This flight was called the Celsius Mission by ESA 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

874-655: The Royal Institute of Technology 2012 Alumni of the Year award. As a graduate student, Fuglesang worked at CERN in Geneva on the UA5 experiment , which studied proton – antiproton collisions. In 1988 he became a Fellow of CERN, where he worked on the CPLEAR experiment studying the subtle CP-violation of kaon particles. After a year he became a Senior Fellow and head of the particle identification subdetector. In November 1990, Fuglesang obtained

912-401: The amusement park Gröna Lund and east of it, a private shipyard was developed from 1735 by the merchant Efraim Lothsack, who also had several new residential buildings built. The activities grew during the 19th century under the managership of John Burgman and Adolf Fredholm, of which the former had the church, Djurgårdskyrkan , and the school, Djurgårdsskolan , built. The shipyard was sold to

950-628: The beer was called Alltid oavsett ("always, no matter what"), which is a slogan often used by supporters of Djurgårdens IF. The beer is a pale lager of 5.0% abv made by Grebbestad Bryggeri on behalf of Djurgårdshjälpen and is not part of Grebbestad Bryggeri's own range of beers. The following non-profit organisations are independent but has a close official cooperation with Djurgårdens IF: Djurg%C3%A5rden Djurgården ( pronounced [ˈjʉ̌ː(r)ɡɔɳ] or [ˈjʉ̂ːrˌɡoːɖɛn] ) or, more officially, Kungliga Djurgården ( Swedish for 'The [Royal] Game Park'),

988-442: The borough and port district Djurgårdsstaden on Djurgården in central Stockholm . Most of the founders were from the shipping industry working class , and Djurgården maintained that profile for most of its early history, in sharp contrast with middle class rivals AIK . With an original focus on winter sports and athletics , the club quickly branched into other sports, becoming one of Sweden 's most successful sports clubs of

1026-1006: The city in 1863 and moved to Södra Hammarbyhamnen in 1979. Another shipyard for pinnaces , built in the strait between Djurgården and Beckholmen in 1868, is still in operation. The southern portion of the area hosted the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930) . Besides the list below, a big portion of Djurgården consists of green areas offering footpaths and water front promenades among present or historical upper class residences and old institutional buildings, many of which are regarded as historical monuments of national interest. Ways to get there include by foot, by tram from Sergels torg or by boat from Nybroplan , Skeppsholmen or Slussen . Nearby subway stations include Karlaplan metro station . 59°19′30″N 18°07′00″E  /  59.32500°N 18.11667°E  / 59.32500; 18.11667 Christer Fuglesang Arne Christer Fuglesang (born 18 March 1957)

1064-523: The colours are set to Pantone , CMYK and web colour values. In many sports – among them football, bandy and handball – the home jersey of the team is vertically striped in light and dark blue. Because of this, blue is usually seen as the most important of the three colours. The ice hockey team uses jerseys in one blue shade with yellow and red details. Djurgårdens IF has a number of member sections, all of which legally are their own associations with their own financial and sporting responsibilities but share

1102-429: The common name, logo and values and support each other. Previously, Djurgårdens IF had sections in other sports. One of these was ski jumping and DIF was one of the best clubs in Sweden in this sport for fifty years. Djurgården is one of the most supported clubs in Sweden, with most of its supporters living in Stockholm and the neighbouring suburbs . While other Stockholm clubs have profiled themselves as belonging to

1140-400: The first spacewalker outside Russia and United States to do more than three spacewalks. With the completion of two more EVAs, he has performed five spacewalks. Total EVA time from five spacewalks adds up to 31 hours 54 minutes giving Fuglesang a 29th place in history as of 14 September 2009. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of

1178-421: The form of a rabbit called Järnkanin ("Iron Rabbit") are sold, the name a pun on the word Järnkamin. A couple of beers have been created over the years. At present, Alberget 4A is sold for Djurgårdens IF. It is named for the address of the café where the club was founded. The beer was launched in 2013 and is sold through Djurgårdshjälpen , a supporter initiative to raise money for the sports club. Originally,

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1216-419: The main bridge to the island. One of the most prominent buildings of the exposition, a 16,820 m (181,000 sq ft) exposition hall in wood, design by the architect Ferdinand Boberg and featuring a 100-metre (330 ft) tall cupola and 4 minarets, was demolished after the exposition however, together with many other pavilions built in non-permanent materials. In what is today the southern part of

1254-789: The mission, which lasted 179 days, Fuglesang was the prime crew interface coordinator. From the Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP) in Korolyov , he was the main contact with ESA Astronaut, Thomas Reiter, on Mir, and acted as coordinator between Mir and the Euromir 95 Payloads Operations Control Center, located in Oberpfaffenhofen , Germany, and project management. Between March and June 1996, he underwent specialized training in TsPK on Soyuz operations for de-docking, atmospheric re-entry and landing. In 1996, ESA selected Fuglesang to train as

1292-505: The mouth of Lake Mälaren ". The present name, Djurgården , stems from the game park of King John III , which he declared the intention to realize in February 1579 to keep deer , reindeer , and elk . In the 17th century a baiting arena was built at the location. In 1667, a few cottages intended for "paralysed and crippled seafarers" were built forming what was to become Djurgårdsstaden . The Swedish Navy moved to Karlskrona during

1330-592: The museums and amusement park. The island belongs to the National City park founded in 1995. Since the 15th century the Swedish monarch has owned or held the right of disposition of Royal Djurgården. Today, this right is exercised by the Royal Djurgården Administration which is a part of the Royal Court of Sweden . A larger area of the city, separated from Djurgården proper by Djurgårdsbrunnsviken

1368-500: The shipyard in the beginning of the 20th century were interrupted by World War II, which meant the activities grew considerably instead, culminating in 1945 when 1,280 people were employed. In 1969, the Navy moved to Muskö , and in the early 1970s the area was transformed into the recreation area it is today. Many structures on the western part of Djurgården date back to the Stockholm World's Fair of 1897 , including Djurgårdsbron ,

1406-583: The sports governing body, the World Flying Disc Federation , and the record was accepted. But since it was set "outside the earth's atmosphere" it was recorded as 'Galactic Record'. On 15 July 2008 Fuglesang was selected as a mission specialist of the STS-128 , launched on 28–29 August 2009. STS-128 (ISS assembly mission "17A") delivered equipment allowing the ISS crew to be expanded from three to six astronauts. During STS-128 Fuglesang also became

1444-683: Was involved with the SilEye experiment which investigated light flashes in astronauts' eyes on Mir between 1995 and 1999. This work is continuing on the International Space Station (ISS) with the Alteino and ALTEA apparatuses. He has also initiated the DESIRE project to simulate and estimate the radiation environment inside ISS. Fuglesang's first spaceflight mission was as a mission specialist on STS-116 in 2006, an assembly and crew-rotation mission to

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