Columbus Lab Ready For Delivery To ISS

[Swampcat]

<center><br />Columbus Lab Ready For Delivery To ISS<br /><br /><blockquote><p align="left"><font color="orange">ESA said Monday that technicians in Bremen, Germany, have completed final integration of the Columbus laboratory for the International Space Station. The facility will be shipped to Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at the end of next month to prepare for its launch in late 2007 aboard one of NASA's space shuttles.</font>/p></p></blockquote></center> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[erioladastra]

<br /><br />...pending a positive outcome of the Flight Acceptance Review next month. (Not likely to be an issue, but formally it is not truly ready to be shipped yet).