Spacewalkers anchor new lab to space station
Europe's shiny new $2 billion science lab, Columbus, was anchored to the international space station Monday by a team of astronauts laboring inside and out.
French astronaut Leopold Eyharts announced its arrival. "Beautiful work," radioed Mission Control.
It was an exhausting daylong affair that took more time than expected.
The grand finale was the actual attachment of the 23-foot, 14-ton lab during an exhausting daylong spacewalk by Rex Walheim and Stanley Love. The astronauts shouted and cheered when the lab reached its destination.
