After four-year wait, Europe's Columbus docks at station
After four years' delay and last minute space- walk hitches, the Columbus laboratory docked onto the International Space Station on Monday, opening a new chapter for Europe in space flight. " Columbus is now officially a part of the ISS," NASA officials said on the NASA TV transmission of the docking. In a precision transfer that took about two hours, a robotic arm operated from inside the space station manoeuvred Columbus out of the cargo bay on the Atlantis shuttle and into its permanent place at the Harmony portal that was installed last year. "Beautiful work," a ground control official in Houston, Texas, said. "The newest member has touched metal to metal." French astronaut Leopold Eyharts will be the first to enter the Columbus module.
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