Mementos on Europe's Last Space Freighter Honor Scientist Namesakes

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 16:20 in Astronomy & Space

Packed on Europe's final space freighter to dock with the International Space Station is a small blue box. It's not the most important payload on the Automated Transfer Vehicle, but the box's contents commemorate the fleet's five spacecraft namesakes.

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