The crews of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Discovery added a new node module to the station as part of a six-hour spacewalk. The Harmony module was moved from the cargo bay of Discovery to its temporary position on the port side of the Unity module by the station’s robotic arm during a spacewalk by astronauts Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock that started at 5:02 a.m. EDT Friday. Harmony will be moved to its permanent location at the end of the Destiny module after Discovery leaves the station.
Space Station commander Peggy Whitson and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli opened the hatch to the newly installed module at 8:24 a.m. EDT today and floated into the brightly lighted room that will serve as the gateway to European and Japanese research modules scheduled for launch late this year and early next year.
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