The focus of this image is the suspended European Columbus module being moved onto a work stand in a cleanroom at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. Of course, a cylindrical module of more than ...

When the Shuttle Atlantis launches tomorrow, it will be carrying with it an important addition to the International Space Station (ISS): the Columbus laboratory. The module is a scientific research ...

Thomas Pesquet: This is what Columbus looks like at night now that all our experiments have arrived! The pink light is not for our evening mood, it’s for a plant growth experiment, as it improves the ...

Columbus, Europe's contribution to the ISS, celebrates its 10th anniversary The space laboratory enables multidisciplinary research in microgravity 161 ESA experiments have so far been carried out in ...

German astronaut Hans Schlegel and France's Leopold Eyharts hope to begin activating the Columbus laboratory module on the International Space Station before the end of the year, bolting the ...

Europe’s Columbus laboratory has been successfully launched into space towards its eventual home on the International Space Station (ISS). The 10-tonne Columbus module took off on board the space ...