Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers to the international space station Monday that contained a brand new freezer, sleeping compartment and treadmill bearing a TV comedian's name. The Italian-built chest - nicknamed Leonardo, as in Leonardo da Vinci - was moved from space shuttle Discovery via a hefty robot arm and hoisted onto the space station. It's loaded with nearly 8 tons of equipment and science experiments for the orbiting outpost and its six residents. Much of the gear is stored in portable racks; the bedroom is the size of a phone booth. Leonardo will remain secured to the space station for the next week. The astronauts will remove the cylindrical vessel - 21 feet (6.5 meters) long and 15 feet (4.6 meters) in diameter - and place it back on space shuttle Discovery for return to Earth. By that time, it will be loaded with trash and unneeded items..
