'Jules Verne' Automated Transfer Vehicle Ready To Leave For Inte...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 03/04/2008 - 01:00

With ESA's Columbus laboratory successfully attached and operating on the International Space Station, the time has now come for another European milestone mission to leave for the ISS -- that of the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named "Jules Verne."


 

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