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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A media event at NASA's Kennedy Space Center highlighted the next piece to be added to the International Space Station, the Italian-built Node-2 module, known as Harmony. In the background next to the poster is Glenn C. Chin, mission manager for International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing, who talks to reporters about processing of the Harmony module. Harmony will launch aboard space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-120, targeted for launch Oct. 23. The module is scheduled to be transferred at the end of the month to Launch Pad 39A, in preparation for its journey to the station. Harmony is approximately 21 feet long and 14 feet in diameter. It will act as an internal connecting port and passageway to additional international science labs and cargo spacecraft. The pressurized module will increase the living and working space inside the station and serve as a work platform outside for the station's robotic arm. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-07pd2487
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A media event at NASA's Kennedy Space Center highlighted the next piece to be added to the International Space Station, the Italian-built Node-2 module, known as Harmony. In the background next to the poster is Glenn C. Chin, mission manager for International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing, who talks to reporters about processing of the Harmony module. Harmony will launch aboard space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-120, targeted for launch Oct. 23. The module is scheduled to be transferred at the end of the month to Launch Pad 39A, in preparation for its journey to the station. Harmony is approximately 21 feet long and 14 feet in diameter. It will act as an internal connecting port and passageway to additional international science labs and cargo spacecraft. The pressurized module will increase the living and working space inside the station and serve as a work platform outside for the station's robotic arm. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.
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