European Space Lab Set for Launch
December 2, 2007 By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
International Space Station program manager Mike Suffredini answers a question during a flight readiness review news conference where the official launch date of space shuttle Atlantis was set as Dec. 6 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. Atlantis will deliver the European Space Agency's Columbus Laboratory to the International Space Station.(AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)
(AP) -- It took less time for Christopher Columbus to drum up the money and set sail for the New World than it has for the Columbus space lab to get off the ground.
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