Editing Harmony (ISS module) (section)

== Launch ==

''Harmony'' was launched on 23 October 2007 aboard of the [[STS-120]], as the primary component of assembly [[STS-120|mission ISS-10A]].<ref name="STS120">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/mission_overview.html|title=STS-120 to Deliver Harmony Node to ISS|access-date=September 28, 2007|publisher=NASA|year=2007|archive-date=3 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603040355/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/mission_overview.html|url-status=dead}} {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref name="harmony2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/harmony_payload.html|title=STS-120 Bringing Space Station 'Harmony'|access-date=September 28, 2004|publisher=NASA |year=2007}} {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref name="manifest">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html|title=Launch Schedule: Consolidated Launch Manifest|access-date=September 28, 2007|publisher=NASA|year=2007|archive-date=7 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307191348/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html|url-status=dead}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>

On 26 October 2007, the station's [[Mobile Servicing System|Space Station Remote Manipulator System]] (SSRMS) removed ''Harmony'' from the shuttle cargo bay and temporarily mated it to the port side of ''[[Unity Module|Unity]]'' and, on 27 October 2007, the crew entered in ''Harmony''.<ref name="harmmate">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html|title=Harmony module pulled from cargo bay|access-date=October 26, 2007|work=CBS News|year=2007|author=William Harwood}}</ref><ref name="entered">{{cite web|url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts120/071027fd5/index.html |title=Astronauts enter Harmony|access-date=October 27, 2007|publisher=Spaceflight Now|year=2007|author=William Harwood for CBS News}}</ref> After the Space Shuttle departed, ''Harmony'' was relocated to the forward dock of the ''Destiny'' laboratory. It required three [[Extravehicular activity|EVAs]] by the station crew to complete the installation.<ref name="entered"/><ref name="VARA">{{cite web |url=http://www.qsl.net/w2vtm/shuttle.html|title=Upcoming Shuttle Missions and ARISS Operations|access-date=September 28, 2007|publisher=Victor Amateur Radio Association|year=2007}}</ref>