Nauka is currently scheduled to launch on a Proton-M rocket in April 2021 and will be attached to the ISS at the location where the Pirs Docking Compartment is currently located. The module that w ...

TASS/. The Pirs module will be undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on July 26, chief of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday. "The Pirs module ...

In 2021, a similar fate came to Pirs, a Russian module that was added to the International Space Station. In need of more room, mission controllers decided that it would be detached and then ...

Here’s a look at the International Space Station (ISS), a station operated by a partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries. Information on ISS crews and expeditions can be found here.

They will dismantle containers with microorganisms installed on the ISS modules Poisk and Pirs in August 2017 that will later get back to Earth. The experiment is aimed at examining time ...