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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Space Station Gets Huge Lab -- Next: Toilet Repair


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A robotic arm on the International Space Station lifts pressurized-module section of Japan's Kibo space laboratory out of the space shuttle Discovery. Astronauts assembled the bus-size lab on June 3, 2008, and attached it to the space station.

In the pressurized module astronauts will conduct microgravity experiments.

Image courtesy NASA TV