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New Russian ISS Module Nauka Successfully Docked to Station
New Russian ISS Module Nauka Successfully Docked to Station
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MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - Russian multifunctional laboratory module (MLM) Nauka docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, after 14 years of... 29.07.2021, Sputnik International
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Nauka automatically docked at the docking port of another Russian ISS module, Zvezda. It became the first Russian module sent to the ISS in 11 years. The previous one was the small research module Rassvet, which was sent to the station in 2010.NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana has congratulated Roscosmos in a statement on Twitter.Cabana was speaking the day before Boeing’s Starliner was due to take off on its first unmanned mission to dock with the ISS, a task that Cabana described in the press conference as of "critical importance" to advance the Starliner program.Meanwhile, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky working aboard the International Space Station informed the Mission Control Center near Moscow about the unplanned activation of engines of the new module Nauka. The Houston Mission Control Center told the astronauts that due to the activation of engines, the ISS changed its position.
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New Russian ISS Module Nauka Successfully Docked to Station
17:46 GMT 29.07.2021 (Updated: 17:12 GMT 20.06.2023) MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - Russian multifunctional laboratory module (MLM) Nauka docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, after 14 years of waiting on the Earth and eight days of orbital flight, according to the docking broadcast, which is being conducted by Roscosmos.
Nauka automatically docked at the docking port of another Russian ISS module, Zvezda. It became the first Russian module sent to the ISS in 11 years. The previous one was the small research module Rassvet, which was sent to the station in 2010.
NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana has congratulated
Roscosmos in a statement on Twitter.
"Congratulations [to] our Russian partners on the successful docking of their Nauka module to the Space Station, paving the way for the arrival of Starliner", he wrote.
Cabana was speaking the day before Boeing’s Starliner was due to take off on its first unmanned mission to dock with the ISS, a task that Cabana described in the press conference as of "critical importance" to advance the Starliner program.
Meanwhile, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky working aboard the
International Space Station informed the Mission Control Center near Moscow about the unplanned activation of engines of the new module Nauka. The Houston Mission Control Center told the astronauts that due to the activation of engines, the ISS changed its position.
