Pirs Departs ISS, Making Way For Russia’s Nauka Laboratory

PIRS
MS-16/Progress 77 docked to the Pirs docking compartment on the ISS' Russian segment.
Credit: NASA
Russia’s near two-decade-old Pirs docking compartment and airlock left the International Space Station (ISS) in the grasp of the Progress MS-16 cargo capsule early July 26. The departure provides a permanent parking spot on the Earth-facing docking port of the Zvezda service module. This will soon...

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