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    Columbus is a science laboratory that is part of the International Space Station (ISS) and is the largest single contribution to the ISS made by the European...
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    the ISS is the Integrated Truss Structure, which connects the large solar panels and radiators to the pressurized modules. The pressurized modules are...
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  • Thumbnail for Columbus Control Centre
    The Columbus Control Centre entered full-time operation during the STS-122 Shuttle Mission, which delivered the Columbus module to the ISS. The module was...
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  • U.S. State of Georgia Columbus may also refer to: Columbus (crater), a crater on Mars Columbus (ISS module), the European module for the International...
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  • Thumbnail for Harmony (ISS module)
    based on the existing Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, as well as the European Space Agency's Columbus module (both of which have only one passive Common...
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  • Thumbnail for Assembly of the International Space Station
    assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s. Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November...
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    The European Physiology Module (EPM) is an International Standard Payload Rack for the Columbus Laboratory on board the International Space Station. The...
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    (27 ft) in diameter (compare to the 4.4-metre (14 ft) diameter of the Columbus ISS Module). The name of the project is a contraction of Transit Habitat reflecting...
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    Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2, ‹See Tfd›Russian: Малый исследовательский модуль 2), is a docking module of the International Space Station (ISS). Added in...
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  • Thumbnail for Columbus External Payload Facility
    time. Columbus-EPF was transported to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Columbus module on STS-122/1E in February 2008. Columbus-EPF payloads...
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  • Thumbnail for Unity (ISS module)
    first U.S.-built component of the International Space Station (ISS). This cylindrical module, constructed of steel by Boeing for NASA, serves as the critical...
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    compatible with the ISS standards for transport in the MPLM and Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and the use on board the ISS partner modules like Destiny,...
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    that goes back to Spacelab. In addition, ESA's Columbus module, the Harmony and Tranquility ISS modules and the ATV and Cygnus resupply craft all trace...
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  • Thumbnail for Fluid Science Laboratory
    Science Laboratory is a European (ESA's) science payload designed for use in Columbus built by Alenia Spazio, OHB-System and Verhaert Design and Development...
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  • Thumbnail for Scientific research on the International Space Station
    ISS includes a number of modules devoted to scientific activity as well as other hardware designed for the same purpose. Laboratory modules: Columbus...
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    ISS during Expedition 5, whereupon it was installed in the Destiny module. On March 21, 2008, during Expedition 16, MSG was relocated to the Columbus...
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    Biolab (redirect from Biolab (ISS Facility))
    the Columbus laboratory. Space Shuttle Atlantis on ISS Assembly Flight 1E, mission STS-122, successfully delivered the Columbus module to the ISS on February...
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    the ISS Spectroscopy SOLAR: three years observing and ready for solar maximum - ESA Sun Monitoring on the External Payload Facility of Columbus (Solar)...
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  • Thumbnail for International Space Station programme
    ambitious ISS modules to date, the Centrifuge Accommodations Module, has been cancelled due to the prohibitive costs NASA faces in simply completing the ISS. As...
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  • Thumbnail for Columbus Man-Tended Free Flyer
    an autonomous crewed space platform. It consisted of a Columbus module docked to a service module containing solar power collectors, communications and...
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  • Space Station (ISS) with propellant, water, air, payloads, and experiments. ATVs also reboosted the station into a higher orbit. Columbus is a science laboratory...
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    Columbus also has four external payload locations, used to expose experiments to the vacuum of space. The Columbus module was delivered to the ISS by...
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    1982 Spaceflight portal Columbus Man-Tended Free Flyer Hermes (spacecraft) International Space Station Columbus (ISS module) Space Shuttle retirement...
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  • Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (category Columbus (ISS module))
    ACES module will be externally mounted to the ESA's Columbus Laboratory with an 18-30 month expected operations phase. Scientific research on the ISS European...
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  • service module. In December 2016, ESA's member states agreed it would extend its commitment to the ISS to 2024, and would supply a second service module, as...
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  • Thumbnail for European Technology Exposure Facility
    the European Columbus laboratory, one of the modules of the International Space Station. The facility, mounted onto the exterior of Columbus, provided a...
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    of the European Space Agency's Columbus (ISS module). It took three spacewalks by crew members to prepare the Columbus Laboratory for its scientific work...
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    STS-122 (redirect from ISS 1E)
    February 7, 2008. STS-122 was the ISS Assembly Flight 1E, which delivered the European Columbus laboratory module to the station, along with the Biolab...
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    STS-128 (redirect from ISS 17A)
    removed and replaced a materials processing experiment outside ESA's Columbus module, and returned an empty ammonia tank assembly. The mission's first launch...
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  • Thumbnail for European Drawer Rack
    sends streaming video, images, and science data to Earth via the Columbus module's high-rate data link and can temporarily store 72 GB of video. The...
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