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Final module to ISS ready

The final module of the International Space Station, Italian-built cupola, was delivered this month and awaits its flight at Kennedy Space Center. The small, round room with six windows around the sides and one on the top will be the last component installed on the station in 2009.

The cupola has a practical purpose: observation of spacewalks, robotic arm operations, Earth and space.

A number of station components including the cupola are awaiting the shuttles’ return to space which is expected to resume on May 2005 the earliest.

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