NASA
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National
Aeronautics and
Space
Administration
John
F.
Kennedy
Space
Center
Kennedy
Space Center,
Florida
32899
AC
321 867-2468
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tracy
Young
October
12, 2004
Kennedy
Space Center,
Fla.
(Phone:
321/867-2468)
PHOTO
RELEASE: P17-04
ROOM WITH A PANORAMIC VIEW
NOW AT KSC
KENNEDY SPACE
CENTER,
FLA. – Inside the Space
Station Processing Facility, the Cupola is uncrated. It was shipped from Alenia
Spazio in Turin,
Italy, for the European
Space Agency. The Cupola is an element scheduled to be installed on the
International Space Station in early 2009. A dome-shaped module with seven
windows, the Cupola will give astronauts a panoramic view for observing many
operations on the outside of the orbiting complex. The view out of the Cupola
windows will enhance an arm operator's situational awareness, supplementing
television camera views and graphics. It will provide external observation
capabilities during spacewalks, docking operations and hardware surveys and for
Earth and celestial studies. The Cupola is the final element of the Space
Station core.
KSC Photo Number:
KSC-04PD-2100
KSC Photo Number:
KSC-04PD-2103
A
complete gallery of NASA Kennedy Space Center photos is available at:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/index.cfm
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