STS 120 - Esperia Mission VNR
ESA TV Exchanges
This News Release details Italian ESA astronaut Paolo Nespolis mission to attach the Italian-built Node 2 to the International Space Station. It looks at how this mission will kick off an intense period of European construction in orbit that will lead to the installation of ESAs Columbus Laboratory Facility. The video explains how the realisation of Nespolis astronaut career will facilitate Europes first real-estate in space.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS53715.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/ESPERIAOCT2007_DV_24-10-2007_wmphigh.wmv

The Esperia mission VNR October 2007
10.00.40 An Italian astronautís journey to the International Space Station is about to begin one of Europeís busiest ever periods in space. The ISS in orbit The ISS interior Earth from the ISS
10.00.52 Paolo Nespoli will be travelling onboard NASAís space shuttle to deliver a state-of-theart Italian built connector module called Node 2. Nespoli at KSC Node 2 at KSC
10.01.02 This will allow Europeís Columbus laboratory to be docked to the station, giving the European Space Agency, ESA, its longawaited first ëreal estateí in orbit. GFX Columbus
10.01.13 Nespoli, whoís been a member of the European Astronaut Corps since 1998, has been training for this mission for over a year. Thisíll be his first mission to space. GVs Nespoli training GVs Esperia crew walk out for pre-flight conference
10.01.24 Sot. Paolo Nespoli : ""What am I doing on this flight? I am the spacewalk coordinator so will be inside the shuttle coordinat