Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Week 7 2010

The Cupola is an ESA-built observatory module of the International Space Station (ISS). It will be used to observe experiments and dockings. It was launched aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-130 on 8 February 2010 attached to the Tranquility (Node 3) module. With the Cupola attached, ISS assembly reached 85 percent complete. (more...)