The ESA's Columbus lab module is now attached to ISS and functioning well, thus successfully accomplishing the main task of the STS-122 mission and bringing the construction of ISS another step closer to completion.
The 10 astronauts on site-- seven from the crew of Atlantis plus the three stationed on ISS-- will spend the next two days setting up experiments both inside and outside Columbus. Atlantis is scheduled to undock from ISS Monday in preparation for its trip home.
Activities within Columbus will be coordinated from a new ESA mission control facility in Munich, giving the Europeans experience in managing human space flights.
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