Columbus Laboratory Update June 2006
ESA TV Exchanges
Replay 1: 20 June 2006 - 15:00-15:15 GMT
Replay 2: 24 June 2006 - 11:20-11:35 GMT
The Columbus Laboratory is Europe’s major contribution to the International Space Station. It is now ready for launch, waiting in Florida for the launch oin Shuttle flight STS-122 in late 2007.
Today’s Exchange provides an overview of the Project, including location filmings a few days before it left Europe, in May 2006, and interviews with ESA’s Project Manager Bernardo Patti.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS46712.pdf
A WMV preview file is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/columbus_ready_08-06-06.wmv
This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm
More backgroud information can be found on: http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/users/index.cfm?act=default.page&level=1c&page=adv-ug
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