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Columbus, ESA space laboratory, has been presented

Brema, Germany - It will be launched to ISS in 2007

Columbus module, the most important European contribution for the orbiting International Space Station (ISS), was presented yesterday at the EADS Space Transportation seat in Brema, Germany. During a 10-year development work, Columbus was pre-integrated in Turin’s Alenia Alcatel Space plants and then finally integrated in Brema, where it will leave from within May headed to NASA Kennedy Space Center i...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 140100
Rome, Italy, 05/03/2006 14:21
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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