Astronauts aboard the international space station on Wednesday relocated a newly arrived module needed to anchor European and Japanese research laboratories.The connecting module Harmony, which was delivered by a space shuttle crew three weeks ago, was shifted from a temporary berthing port to the end of the station's Destiny laboratory in a critical step toward preparing the orbital complex for the arrival of Europe's first permanent space laboratory, Columbus.
The space shuttle Atlantis will take the Columbus lab to the station on a mission starting December 6.
Flight engineer Dan Tani used the space station's robotic crane to pull Harmony off the Unity node and reposition it at the end of the U.S. science laboratory Destiny.
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