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Article: Huge Japanese lab gets bigger at space station
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- June 6, 2008
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The space station's huge new Japanese lab got even bigger Friday when the astronauts attached an attic to it for extra storage.
The attic _ essentially a 14-foot shed, or closet, for spare tools and equipment _ was popped atop the 37-foot Kibo science laboratory by astronauts operating the international space station's robot arm. "Nice work," Mission Control radioed.
Even before Friday's addition, the billion-dollar, bus-size Kibo was the biggest room at the space station.
The attic had been in a temporary location at the space station since March. There wasn't enough room on a space shuttle to fit both the attic and lab, so NASA split them into two flights. ...