DESTINY MODULE US LAB ISS -5A STS-98 NASA SHUTTLE Mission 5" SPACE PATCH

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DESTINY MODULE US LAB ISS -5A STS-98 NASA SHUTTLE Mission 5" SPACE PATCH
The
Destiny
module is the primary operating facility for
U.S.
research payloads aboard the
International Space Station
(ISS). It was berthed to the
Unity
module and activated over a period of five days in February, 2001.
Destiny
is
NASA
's first permanent operating orbital research station since
Skylab
was vacated in February 1974.
The
Boeing Company
began construction of the 16 ton (14.5 tonne), state-of-the art research laboratory in 1995 at the
Marshall Space Flight Center
in
Huntsville
, Alabama.
Destiny
was shipped to the
Kennedy Space Center
in
Florida
in 1998, and was turned over to NASA for pre-launch preparations in August 2000. It launched on February 7, 2001 aboard the
Space Shuttle Atlantis
on
STS-98
.
Astronauts work inside the pressurized facility to conduct research in numerous scientific fields. Scientists throughout the world will use the results to enhance their studies in medicine, engineering, biotechnology, physics, materials science, and Earth science
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