Harmony willbe movedin front of the U.S. Destiny Laboratory on thestation before the next shuttle flight arrives with the European Space Agency's Columbus module around Dec. 8.

On Dec. 6, 1998, the six-member STS-88 crew mated Unity, the first U.S. element of the International Space Station, with the already-orbiting Zarya module, beginning the historic assembly of the ...

STS-98 brought up the Destiny Module and attached it to the forward side of Unity. STS-100 brought up the Canadarm2 - which was crucial for constructing the station.

The International Space Station was born on December 6, 1998, when the U.S. Unity module was deployed from space shuttle Endeavour and mated with Russia’s Zarya module. “We have these two huge ...