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EuTEF mission comes to a successful end

14 September 2009

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External Facilities: European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTE

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External Facilities: European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF).

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Landing of Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of the STS-128 mission. Discovery touched down at Edwards Air Force Base at 02:53 CEST on 12 September 2009. The STS-128 crew included ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang.

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Astronauts remove experiments from Columbus exterior

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S128-E-007203 (1 Sept. 2009) --- Astronauts John Olivas and Nicole Stott (right), both STS-128 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 35-minute spacewalk, Olivas and Stott removed an empty ammonia tank from the station's truss and temporarily stowed it on the station's robotic arm. Olivas and Stott also retrieved the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) and Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) from the Columbus laboratory module and installed them on Discovery's payload bay for return.

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EuTEF's scientific experiments and preliminary results Celebrating mission success: the EuTEF Post-Flight Symposium at ESTEC Columbus Mission

ESA astronaut returns to Earth with Columbus lab experiment Spacewalkers to retrieve science experiments outside Columbus Columbus external experiments installed during spacewalk