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ESA astronaut Tim Peake gives a tour of the Columbus laboratory taken during his Principia mission in 2016. ESA astronaut Tim Peake gives a tour of the Columbus laboratory taken during his Principia mission in 2016.
\nThe Columbus laboratory is ESA\u2019s largest single contribution to the International Space Station. It was also the first permanent European research facility in space.
\nThe state-of-the-art facility offers 75 cubic metres of space and contains an entire suite of research equipment. External platforms support experiments and applications in space science, Earth observation and technology.
\nColumbus offers European scientists full access to a weightless environment that cannot possibly be duplicated on Earth.
\nDuring his six-month stay on the International Space Station Tim carried out a substantial amount of experimental work in microgravity, ran educational programmes from space, and played an important part in operational activities both onboard and outside the Station.
More about the Principia mission: http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
\nThe Columbus laboratory is ESA’s largest single contribution to the International Space Station. It was also the first permanent European research facility in space.
\nThe state-of-the-art facility offers 75 cubic metres of space and contains an entire suite of research equipment. External platforms support experiments and applications in space science, Earth observation and technology.
\nColumbus offers European scientists full access to a weightless environment that cannot possibly be duplicated on Earth.
\nDuring his six-month stay on the International Space Station Tim carried out a substantial amount of experimental work in microgravity, ran educational programmes from space, and played an important part in operational activities both onboard and outside the Station.
More about the Principia mission: http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436541,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344609\/revisions\/436541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}