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==Launch and installation== [[File:Sts-98-patch.svg|thumb|Mission patch for STS-98]] Destiny was launched to ISS aboard the [[Space Shuttle]] mission [[STS-98]].<ref name="sts-98"/> It launched into Earth orbit on February 7, 2001 aboard the {{OV|104}}.<ref name="sts-98"/> On February 10, 2001 at 9:50 am CST, the installation of Destiny began.<ref name="nasa.gov">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/content/destiny-laboratory-attached-to-international-space-station|title=Destiny Laboratory Attached to International Space Station|date=16 April 2015}}</ref> First, the Shuttle SRMSS ([[Canadarm]]) was used to remove [[Pressurized Mating Adapter|Pressurized Mating Adapter 2]] (PMA 2) from Unity node's forward port to make room for the new module. PMA-2 was temporarily stowed on the forward berthing ring of the [[Z1 truss]]. ''Destiny'' was "grabbed" by the robotic arm at 11:23, lifted out of ''Atlantis''{{'}} cargo bay, and berthed to the forward port of ''Unity''. Two days later, PMA-2 was moved to its semi-permanent location on the forward port of ''Destiny''.<ref name="STS-98">{{cite web | last = STS-98 | first = Mission Control Center | title = Status Report # 07 | publisher = NASA | date = February 10, 2001 | url = http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-98/news/sts-98-mcc-07.txt | access-date = 2007-01-18 | archive-date = 2012-04-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120406104047/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-98/news/sts-98-mcc-07.txt | url-status = dead }}</ref> Several years later, on November 14, 2007, the [[Harmony (ISS module)|''Harmony'']] module was attached to the forward port of the ''Destiny'' laboratory, and PMA 2 was again relocated to the forward port of ''Harmony''.<ref name="pma3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/pma3move.html|title=PMA-3 Relocation|access-date=September 28, 2007|publisher=[[NASA]]|year=2007|author=NASA|archive-date=October 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012235655/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/pma3move.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The addition of ''Destiny'' increased the habitable volume by 3,800 cubic feet, an increase of 41 percent.<ref name="nasa.gov"/> <gallery> File:STS-98 Atlantis on the crawler.jpg|Atlantis with ''Destiny'' in its cargo bay heads to the launch pad File:AstroVan.JPG|The Shuttle crew heading out for the launch File:Liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-98 (KSC-01PP-0277).jpg|Liftoff File:Curbeam works on the Destiny module.jpg|Astronaut on EVA with ''Destiny'' File:Sts098-312-0020.jpg|The newly expanded ISS with ''Destiny'' Laboratory, February 2001 </gallery>
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