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Tranquility node here for podcast, tweets and maybe more

Rob Coppinger
 on May 15, 2009 8:37 AM | | Comments (2)
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esa node 3.jpg
credit ESA / caption: another major module for station is ready to go

Tomorrow Hyperbola will be attending the Tranquility Node 3 departure ceremony from Thales Alenia Space's Turin facility and so expect some live twittering and maybe a podcast (and even video) come Monday, hopefully with NASA International Space Station (ISS) programme manager Michael Suffredini and European Space Agency human spaceflight director Simonetta Di Pippo

The above graphic shows the ISS Node 3 Tranquility in its a previously planned location on station with other parts of the ISS identified. For more ISS info go here for ESA's website and here for NASA's. For previous Hyperbola ISS related posts go here and for archive Flight material about the 20 plus-year development of the station, go here

While on 20 May US journalists will get to see Tranquility upon its arrival at Kennedy Space Center and ESA that day will be announcing its new astronauts

2 Comments

Rob, the image is out of date; N3 is now on the port side of N1, opposite Quest. Cupola will be launched on the end of N3, then moved to the Nadir CBM.

PMA 3 goes to N1 Nadir.

MT Rob Coppinger

And it is from an active ESA website page! Shame! Or maybe I should just keep up to date on ISS configurations... Expect more Node 3 stuff soon

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