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Now maybe it sounds too extreme to do a business up there but this is something that you should not miss. Japan’s £1billion space lab named The Kibo module is now open for business after astronauts completed a six-hour spacewalk!

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station floated into the lab module after power was activated, kick-starting Japan’s permanent place in space. Kibo meaning Hope was delivered by the shuttle Discovery, which blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday for a two-week mission that includes a plumbing call to fix the sole toilet aboard the orbital outpost.

On Tuesday, Kibo was attached to the Harmony module, the connecting node for several station components. After the grand opening, the astronauts got to work outfitting the bus-sized lab, installing the first of its racks. A total of 23 racks will eventually be installed, 10 of them devoted to science experiments.

Kibo, shaped like a cylinder, is the largest of the space station’s labs at about 37 feet (11 metres) long and 15 feet (4.6 metres) in diameter.