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International Space Station Cupola Video Released

Posted by kdawson on from the next-to-the-gazebo dept.

quaith writes "With the Space Shuttle Endeavour scheduled to launch at 4:39 AM EST on Sunday for a trip to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency has released a video that shows how the modules it's carrying — Node-3 ('Tranquility') and Cupola — are going to get attached. Node-3 is a connecting module. Cupola has six trapezoidal windows and circular roof designed to provide a unique vantage-point for observing Earth. The video animations show how the station's robotic arm will be used initially to put the modules in place as a single unit, and then to detach Cupola from the end of Node-3 and reattach it on the Earth-facing side. With this addition, the ISS will start to look like something that Jules Verne would have wanted to visit."

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  1. Imagine the view by kerskine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What I would give to spend 8 hours in that cupola

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  2. Re:www.esa.int by Trapezium+Artist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I completely agree with you, it's very cool in a Joe-90, Thunderbirds kind of way. Then again, what else could we use for an international organisation with 18 member states? .org possibly, but it's a bit bland.

    (Yes, I work for ESA and very much like my @esa.int mail address :-)