The Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module Nauka, delayed by nearly 15 years, has finally docked with the International Space Station.
Docking took place at 13:29 UTC July 29, 2021, at the space-facing port of the Zvezda module. This came some eight days after launching atop a Proton-M rocket on July 21 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreToday’s International Space Station is a sprawling complex the size of a football field with over a dozen habitable modules and hundreds of science experiments ongoing at any given time. When the crew of Expedition 1 arrived in November 2000, it was much smaller and their mission was very different — activating this new international outpost.
Read MoreFor two decades, the International Space Station has been a shining example of what can be accomplished when humanity works together.
A cooperation between 15 partner nations and five space agencies, this 420 metric ton, football field-sized complex orbits Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometers every 90 minutes at 28,000 kph.
Read MoreWhen the Soyuz MS-08 crew departed the ISS Oct. 4, 2018, the crew members aboard it took the time to photograph the whole International Space Station just in time for the 20th anniversary of the first modules being launched.
Soyuz MS-08 left at 7:57 UTC with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold. Upon undocking from the Poisk module, the spacecraft performed a full fly around of the space station, something that had not been done since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
Read MoreOrbital Velocity is designed to be "living time capsule" about the International Space Station.
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