The Columbus module is about a meter from its new home on the Harmony node of the International Space Station.
The crew operating the space station robot arm is moving the module into the "ready to latch" position and moving the laboratory toward the hatch where motorized bolts will attach it. Columbus will be opened Tuesday.
Lifing it from Atlantis' payload bay at 2:56 p.m., Leland Melvin attached the space station arm to it and lifted the module free.
"Wow! Look at Columbus coming in," said spacewalker Rex Walheim, as the module moved by.
"Bring it home, Rex," responded spacewalker Stanley Love.
Installing a balky grapple fixture has caused an hour's delay in the scheduled 6.5-hour spacewalk, which is expected to run past 7.5 hours.
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Walheim, Love and Melvin
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