Colbert

Colbert may refer to:

People

Colbert (name), list of people with the name "Colbert". It usually refers to:

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), an important Comptroller-General of Finances under the French king Louis XIV

Stephen Colbert (b. 1964), an American satirist and host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Places

Colbert County, Alabama

Colbert, Georgia

Colbert, Oklahoma

Colbert, Washington

Colbert's Ferry, historic Red River crossing on the National Register of Historic Places

Colbert Mountains, located on Alexander Island, Antarctica

Mount Colbert, Antarctic mountain in the Ross Dependency

Colbert Hills, golf course in Manhattan, Kansas

Ships

French ship Colbert, six ships of the French Navy named in honour of Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Colbert-class ironclad, a class of warship used in the French Navy

USS Colbert (APA-145), attack transport

Other

Comité Colbert, French social committee

Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.), International Space Station exercise device named for Stephen Colbert

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French cruiser Colbert (C611)

Colbert (C 611) was an anti-air cruiser, later transformed into a missile cruiser, of the French Navy. She was the sixth ship (and second cruiser) of the French Navy to be named after Jean-Baptiste Colbert (the previous one was scuttled at Toulon in 1942). She served in the Navy from 1956 to 1991, before being converted into a museum ship at Bordeaux from 1993. Since 2007 she has been anchored in the roadstead of Brest awaiting scrapping.

History

Early service

Her construction began in the Brest dockyards in 1953. She was designed as a powerful ship, the second of the De Grasse series, able to overcome all threats solely by her guns' weight of fire - she had 57 mm and 127 mm turrets for a firing rate of one shot per second. Launched on 24 March 1956 in Brest, France, starting her trials on 5 December 1957 and officially entering active service on 5 May 1959, she was made part of a 15-ship squadron, with the main aims of protecting aircraft carriers from air attack, shore bombardment for ground operations, command hub for naval operations and evacuating French expatriates from overseas. In 1964 a naval reorganisation made her the flagship of France's Mediterranean squadron (escadre de Méditerranée) at Toulon, which was mainly made up of complementary units such as aircraft-carriers and frigates.

Tranquility (ISS module)

Tranquility, also known as Node 3, is a module of the International Space Station (ISS). ESA and the Italian Space Agency had Tranquility built by Thales Alenia Space. A ceremony on November 20, 2009 transferred ownership of the module to NASA. On February 8, 2010, NASA launched the module on the Space Shuttle's STS-130 mission.

The module provides six berthing locations, but three of those locations are disabled, as modules originally planned to be attached to Tranquility were canceled. STS-130 also brought the Cupola, a large window module and robotics work station to the ISS, which was then attached to the nadir-side of Tranquility. The module also includes various ISS systems, including additional life support systems.

Design

Tranquility was built within the ESA-NASA ISS bartering system. ESA committed to build and fund both Harmony and Tranquility as well as the ATV in order to use NASA ISS facitilies, fly astronauts on the Shuttle and for other ISS services. ESA teamed up with the Italian Space Agency ASI to build both Harmony and Tranquility at Thales Alenia Space in Turin.