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The Columbus mission: Leaving the ISS 20 February 2008 The European space laboratory Columbus is part of the International Space Station ISS. After the undocking manoeuvre on 18 February 2008, the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Atlantis have taken pictures of the ISS with the newly attached Columbus laboratory during the so-called fly-around. |
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The Columbus mission – assembly in space 14 February 2008 In February 2008, the astronauts of the STS-122 mission installed the Columbus space laboratory in its final position on the International Space Station ISS. This gallery shows how the ISS's robotic arm lifts the space laboratory from the loading bay of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and moves it onto the Harmony module (Node 2). Further extra-vehicular activities, including one in which ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel participated, were aimed at performing maintenance upon the ISS. |
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The ISS 26 November 2007 This gallery shows images of the International Space Station (ISS). You can see the development of the ISS between 2005 and the present. |
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The Crew 26 November 2007 In this gallery of photos of the STS-122 crew members, you can view underwater training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory and Shuttle training in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA. |
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The Space Shuttle 26 November 2007 In these images you can see the Space Shuttle Atlantis being made ready in the NASA Integration Hall at the Kennedy Space Center and rolled out to Launch Pad 39A. |
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The Columbus Laboratory 26 November 2007 This image gallery shows the Columbus Laboratory from transportation in the Beluga Airbus to its destination in the NASA Integration Hall at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. |
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