While spacewalking astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Discovery flight STS-120 attempt electrical repairs to a damaged solar panel, workers on the ground at Kennedy Space Center are making ready the European Columbus module for a flight to space in early December aboard Atlantis STS-122. The European Space Agency laboratory Columbus, named to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in America, will need 13 kilowatts of electricity to operate. The current crew of orbiting astronauts are working to solve the solar panel electrical problem with a planned Saturday spacewalk.
The 25-foot-by-13-foot Columbus onto the recently installed Harmony module of the International Space Station, where it will remain enabling NASA and the European Space Agency to perform a multitude of medical experiments to help humans adapt to weightlessness, which carries medical problems such as muscle and bone loss.
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