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Space development is noticeable lately.
This news is very interesting and exciting.
link:http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080608TDY01302.htm


JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas--Astronauts on the International Space Station on Friday attached a storage facility for Japan's manned space laboratory Kibo to the top of an experiment module.
Kibo's main section is now almost complete with the mounting of the Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section (ELM-PS) on the already operational Pressurized Module shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday.
Astronauts Karen Nyberg and Gregory Chamitoff operated the robot arm and maneuvered the ELM-PS onto the Pressurized Module in about two hours--the first time two sections of Kibo have been joined in space.
Mission specialist Akihiko Hoshide was responsible for operating the bolts to join the sections at the early and latter stages of the process.
A range of scientific experiments will be conducted in the Pressurized Module. Equipment and materials in the storage facility to be used in the module were moved there through a different process before the ELM-PS was moved.
Astronauts are scheduled early Tuesday to enter the ELM-PS through a hatch from the module to confirm the parts have been securely attached.
This was the second of three space shuttle missions to take Kibo to the ISS. Kibo will be completed next spring when its Exposed Facility is attached.
(Jun. 8, 2008)

Space development will make progress.