Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |

Space Station Gets Its Last Habitable Module







By Mark Carreau

HOUSTON — Space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts attached the final habitable piece of the International Space Station (ISS) on March 1: a 21-ft.-long equipment stowage enclosure that was hoisted from the shuttle’s cargo bay with a robot arm and berthed to the orbiting science laboratory’s Unity module.

Late Feb. 28, NASA’s Mission Management Team added a ...