Columbus Laboratory Installed on Space Station


	Columbus Laboratory Installed on Space Station

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2-19-2008 12:41 PM

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The International Space Station (ISS) has been equipped with a powerful new scientific laboratory.
The <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060913.html">Space Shuttle Atlantis</A> delivered the 
<A href="http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAAYI0VMOC_iss_0.html">Columbus Laboratory</A> 
to the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISS">ISS</A> 
and installed the seven meter long module over the past week.
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_%28ISS_module%29">Columbus</A> 
has ten racks for experiments that can be controlled from the station or the 
<A href="http://www2.gsoc.dlr.de/columbus/home.htm">Columbus Control Center</A> 
in <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany">Germany</A>.  
The first set of experiments includes the 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Science_Laboratory">Fluid Science Laboratory</A>
that will explore fluid properties in the 
<A href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/microgex.html">microgravity</A> 
of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit">low Earth orbit</A>, and 
<A href="http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/users/technical/experiments/rack/biolab/biolab_amb.htm">Biolab</A> which supports experiments on 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microorganism">microorganisms</A>.
Future Columbus experiments include an 
<A href="http://tf.nist.gov/cesium/fountain.htm">atomic clock</A> that will test 
minuscule timing effects including those expected by 
<A href="http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/">Einstein</A>'s 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity">General Theory</A> of Relativity.  
<A href="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-122/html/s122e008222.html">Pictured above</A>, mission specialist 
<A href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/schlegel.html">Hans Schlegel</A> 
works on the outside of Columbus.  
Scientists from all over the <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070514.html">world</A> 
may propose and carry out experiments to be done on the laboratory during its ten year mission.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/66B56ADA-E922-454C-ADE2-20E31083B23D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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