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3 October 2003: The Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) Pressurized Module, the cylinder section where astronauts will be able to work when the ATV is docked to the ISS, has just arrived in its container at the EADS SPACE Transportation facility in Bremen on board the Beluga Airbus aircraft. The Jules Verne ICC Pressurized Module flight hardware was integrated in Turin (I) by Alenia Spazio.