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Description: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – Inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, an overhead crane lowers the Columbus module toward a work stand. Columbus is the European Space Agency's research laboratory for the International Space Station. The module will be prepared for delivery to the space station on a future space shuttle mission. Columbus will expand the research facilities of the station and provide researchers with the ability to conduct numerous experiments in the area of life, physical and materials sciences.
Title: Columbus module delivered to KSC
Credit: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=28806
Author: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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