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Media Type: Videos, Animations
Mission: Columbus Mission (Astronaut Eyharts and Schlegel)
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On 7 February 2008, the European Columbus laboratory launched with the STS-122 mission on Space Shuttle Atlantis. After being attached to the Harmony (Node 2) module a few days later on 11 February, Columbus is now an integral part of the International Space Station (ISS), bringing years of organisation and hard work to fruition. With a projected 10 years in orbit, Columbus creates space history as the first European laboratory dedicated to long-term experimentation in weightlessness. ESA astronauts Léopold Eyharts from France and Hans Schlegel from Germany were crewmembers on the Columbus assembly and commissioning mission. They joined five NASA colleagues on the STS-122 Shuttle flight.
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