Columbus in Space: A Voyage of Discovery on the International Space Station

In 2008 Europe’s first space laboratory was launched to the International Space Station. Ten years later the Columbus lab is still circling 400km above our heads at over 28,000km/h and providing scientists a place to run out-of-this-world experiments. To celebrate a decade of European science and technology in space, this book recounts the story of the Columbus laboratory: from vision to mission and from daily operations to science.