Space station getting extra storage room (AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The International Space Station is effort an extra hardware room.
Space shuttle Discovery delivered the newborn compartment over the weekend.
The orbiting astronauts module install the 21-foot-long room weekday morning. It's loaded with supplies as well as a mechanism robot that module be proven as a potential traveler helper.
The Italian-built room is named Leonardo, after sculpturer da Vinci. It flew seven times to the expanse station as a temporary load carrier. This time, it's staying.
Discovery's terminal grace module terminal an extra day. Mission Control radioed up the programme mass Monday's spacewalk. The 12-day mission module now modify next Tuesday. Once Discovery lands, it module be retired and place in a museum.
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