This Crazy Cosmos » Tranquility connecting node http://www.mikiesoft.net Astronomy & Space Exploration Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:18:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 http://www.mikiesoft.net/space-shuttle-endeavour-sts-130/ http://www.mikiesoft.net/space-shuttle-endeavour-sts-130/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:24:57 +0000 Mike http://www.mikiesoft.net/?p=216 Space Shuttle Endeavour has completed it’s latest mission, STS-130, and has safely landed at the Kennedy Space Center. It’s one of the few remaining shuttle flights left in NASA’s aging fleet of space vehicles.

The International Space Station is 98 percent complete, following NASA’s last big construction project, known as the Tranquility connecting node and cupola. The project added a new room and observation deck to the space station, giving the ISS crew a 360 degree view of earth through it’s seven windows.

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Nicholas Patrick conducted three spacewalks for a total of eighteen hours working outside the space station to install the Tranquility node. There’s only four more shuttle missions, including space shuttle Discovery, scheduled to liftoff in April.


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