Status
Tranquility was located in the clean room at the Thales Alenia Space Turin site until 2009. It was shipped to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on May 17 and arrived in Florida on May 20, 2009. It was officially welcomed to KSC on June 8, 2009.
Tranquility was launched on February 8, 2010 on board the STS-130 mission flown by Endeavour. It was berthed to the port side of Unity on February 12, 2010.
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