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Space Station Payloads

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Cupola, left, and Tranquility Node 3 are joined in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Tranquility Node 3 and Cupola
Aboard Endeavour
Mission STS-130

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Station Features

NASA Receives Tranquility

Bernardo Patti, ESA, left, and Michael Suffredini, NASA.

The last major component set to be added to the International Space Station was officially transferred from the European Space Agency to NASA.

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Engineers Excited by EuTEF's Return on Discovery

EuTEF on the International Space Station

A European experiments platform called EuTEF returned to Earth after 18 months on the International Space Station.

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Space Station's Tranquility

Node 3, named Tranquility, will expand the station's size and support facilities.

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Station Processing

Space Station Processing

Kennedy Space Center is the final checkpoint for International Space Station hardware.
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Space Station Processing Facility

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Space Station Processing Facility

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Featured Multimedia

STS-130 Payload Ready

In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operations are under way to place the International Space Station's Node 3, named Tranquility, into a payload transp...
STS-129 Payload Delivered to the Pad

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers monitor the lift of the canister containing the payload for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission to the International Space Station toward the Pay...
Cupola and Tranquility

The last two major U.S. components for the space station are set to fly together.
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