Tranquility transfer ceremony rescheduled

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's transfer of the International Space Station's Tranquility node to the U.S. space agency has been rescheduled.

NASA said the ceremony, originally set for Nov. 19 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. Nov. 20 at the space center's Space Station Processing Facility.

"Tranquility is a pressurized module that will provide room for many of the station's life support systems," NASA said in a statement. "Attached to the node is a cupola, a unique work station with windows on its six sides and top. The module will be delivered to the station during space shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission, targeted for launch Feb. 4, 2010."

Officials said Tranquility is the last element of a barter agreement for station hardware. ESA contributed the node in exchange for NASA's delivery of ESA's Columbus laboratory to the station. Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, built the module.