The Kibo Japanese Experiment Module's (JEM) pressurized module is lowered into a shipping crate in preparation for its launch aboard shuttle Discovery. The $1 billion Kibo lab, which means "hope" in Japanese, will be the biggest, most elaborate room at the International Space Station, a 37-foot-long scientific workshop with its own hatch for outside experiments and a pair of robot arms.
(Photo: AP Photo/NASA)
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