Wednesday, December 5, 2007

STS-122 Ready to Fly

Both space shuttle Atlantis and the Florida weather seem ready for the launch of STS-122 tomorrow afternoon from Cape Kennedy.

The main objective of this mission is to deliver the European lab module Columbus to the ISS, bringing the construction of the space station one step closer to completion. Three spacewalks are currently planned to install Columbus, but NASA is considering adding a fourth to look at a solar power array that proved troublesome on STS-121.

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