January 25, 2010 - Enduring Partnership

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Recent Weeks

January 30, 2012 - Lunar Orbiter Liftoff

January 23, 2012 - Magellan Turns up the Stereo

January 16, 2012 - Southern Sibling Sees Stars

January 9, 2012 - Hitching a Ride Home

January 2, 2012 - Transforming the Space Frontier

December 26, 2011 - These Laws Can't Be Broken

December 19, 2011 - Long and Winding Road

December 12, 2011 - Blast from the Past

December 5, 2011 - It’s Just Like Folding a Map

November 28, 2011 - A Warmer, Wetter Mars

November 21, 2011 - Spy in the Sky

November 14, 2011 - The Dark Side of Nebulosity

November 7, 2011 - End of an Era

October 31, 2011 - Final Service Call

October 24, 2011 - STEREO Transit

October 17, 2011 - Observatory Mashup

October 10, 2011 - Brewing up a New Moon

October 3, 2011 - Special Delivery

September 26, 2011 - Tadpoles in Space

September 19, 2011 - International Sunrise

September 12, 2011 - Twins over India

September 5, 2011 - Belly of the Beast

August 29, 2011 - High Resolution

August 22, 2011 - Playing Host

August 15, 2011 - Royal Astronomer

August 8, 2011 - New Life for Leonardo

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The Week in Space

January 25-31, 2010

Enduring Partnership In the mid-1980s, the United States sought international partners to help with the mammoth undertaking of a proposed space station named Freedom, which was considered the “next logical step” after the space shuttle program. Twenty-five years ago this week, the European Space Agency approved the ambitious Columbus program, which would have contributed a module to Freedom and ultimately led to a full-fledged European space station. Economic constraints forced both Freedom and Columbus to be downsized, but the partnership endured and now the Columbus laboratory has become ESA’s main contribution to the International Space Station. In this image, astronaut Rex Walheim installs handrails outside the newly-delivered Columbus laboratory in February 2008.

Image credit: NASA