Russia Undocks Pirs Module From ISS Ahead of Nauka Module Arrival

11:44 GMT, 26 July 2021
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia undocked its old Pirs module, which served in orbit for 20 years, from the International Space Station (ISS) using a Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft, it will be de-orbited in a few hours, according to a broadcast on Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos' website.
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The docking station of Russia's ISS segment is now free to receive the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, launched on 21 July and set to dock on 29 July.
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The Pirs module was docked to the ISS in 2001. It was used for 52 spacewalks from the Russian segment of the station.
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