The 20-year-old docking compartment is now the first ISS module to be decommissioned and removed from the space station. Reading time 2 minutes The Russian segment of the International Space Station ...

A Russian Progress cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station early Monday, taking with it the two-decades-old Pirs airlock and docking compartment to clear the way for Thursday's ...

This artist’s concept shows the International Space Station when its assembly sequence is completed in 2004, including minor changes to the final station configuration agreed upon by international ...

Almost 20 years after arriving at the International Space Station (ISS), the Pirs docking module departed the orbiting outpost earlier this week before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. Also known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Russian Progress cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station early Monday, taking with it the two-decades-old Pirs ...

Two Russian cosmonauts used the International Space Station's Poisk docking compartment as an airlock for the first time Wednesday in a six-hour 48-minute spacewalk to begin preparing the nearly ...

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Roscosmos has launched – and docked – the Progress MS-06 resupply mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred at 15:20:13 local time (05:20:13 EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

ISS (International Space Station) decided to let go of the Russian Pirs space module to allow the arrival of the new Nauka module. Because of this, the old rocket burned in outer space like a fireball ...

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Its place will be taken by the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, which has been launched from the Baikonur spaceport and is currently on the orbit MOSCOW, July 25. /TASS/. The Pirs module will be ...

NEW YORK — A pair of cosmonauts completed a six-hour spacewalk Feb. 16 to prepare the international space station for the arrival of a new Russian module next year. Russian spacefliers Oleg Kononenko ...