Harmony ready for action

  Rob Coppinger 
02:19 29 Oct 2007 
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The European-built International Space Station module Node 2, which is called Harmony, sits in the payload bay of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery on flight day two of the 14-day mission STS-120 that began on 23 October.

italian built harmony module in the payload bay of space shuttle discovery
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Above: Harmony in the payload bay of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-120 flight day two
After future missions Harmony will have attached to it the laboratory modules Columbus, from the European Space Agency, and Kibo, from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

During STS-120, also known as assembly flight A10, the Discovery crew, including ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, will work with the ISS's Expedition 16 team to install Harmony and relocate the P6 truss element and solar array.