Video & Pictures: ESA/Thales Tranquility Node 3 departure ceremony

credit Flight / caption: behind a huge glass wall sat Node 3 in its clean room

On Saturday 16 May at Thales Alenia Space's plant in Turin, Italy the European Space Agency held a departure ceremony for the International Space Station's (ISS) Tranquility Node 3 module that will arrive at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on 20 May. The video below gives a feel for what it was like at the ceremony and how Tranquility could be viewed from the room



Go through to the extended portion of this blog post to watch the departure ceremony speeches by ESA human spaceflight director Simonetta Di Pippo and NASA ISS programme manager Michael Suffredini