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Description: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility, the European Space Agency's research laboratory, designated Columbus, is being offloaded onto an Airbus Transport International platform. The module will be lifted onto a flat bed truck and transported to the Space Station Processing Facility. There the module will be prepared for delivery to the International 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: Airbus Beluga - unloading Columbus at KSC
Credit: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=28790
Author: Jim Grossmann / NASA
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