Source: iol.co.za

The US space agency said: An European space lab would be launched on the next United States space shuffle flight which would arrive at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Tuesday on board a special transport plane after a two-day trip from germany.

Columbus is designed to be a platform for experiments with tissue cultures, cells, micro-organisms etc. To bring Columbus to the orbiting International Space Station, Nasa’s Discovery space shuffle slated for a July 1st launch.With the inputs of 10 European countries scientists the mini-lab was developed at EADS Space Transportation in Bremen, Germany. The transport plane left Bremen on Sunday and put in refuelling stops in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Buffalo, New York.