On October 23, 2007, the space shuttle Discovery launched the Harmony module to the International Space Station. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com
The Harmony module is a utility hub 14 feet wide and 24 feet long, or about the length of a minibus. It joins the European Space Agency’s Columbus module and Japan’s Kibo laboratory and serves as the crew quarters for the American astronauts. Once it was in installed, the space station grew from about the size of a three-bedroom house to something more like a five-bedroom house. When astronauts delivered Harmony to the space station, they left it temporarily attached to the Unity node. After the shuttle left, astronauts used the space station's robotic arm to move the shuttle docking port out of the way at the Destiny module. This made room for Harmony to then dock at its permanent home next to the Destiny module.
The Harmony module is a utility hub 14 feet wide and 24 feet long, or about the length of a minibus. It joins the European Space Agency’s Columbus module and Japan’s Kibo laboratory and serves as the crew quarters for the American astronauts. Once it was in installed, the space station grew from about the size of a three-bedroom house to something more like a five-bedroom house. When astronauts delivered Harmony to the space station, they left it temporarily attached to the Unity node. After the shuttle left, astronauts used the space station's robotic arm to move the shuttle docking port out of the way at the Destiny module. This made room for Harmony to then dock at its permanent home next to the Destiny module.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03On October 23, 2007, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Harmony Module to the International Space Station.
00:09The Harmony Module is a utility hub 14 feet wide and 24 feet long, or about the length of a minibus.
00:16It joins the European Space Agency's Columbus Module and Japan's Kibo Laboratory and serves as the crew quarters for the American astronauts.
00:25Once it was installed, the space station grew from about the size of a three-bedroom house to something more like a five-bedroom house.
00:31When astronauts delivered Harmony to the space station, they left it temporarily attached to the Unity Node.
00:36After the shuttle left, astronauts used the space station's robotic arm to move the shuttle docking port out of the way at the Destiny Module.
00:43This made room for Harmony to then dock at its permanent home next to the Destiny Module.
00:47And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:54NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology