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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From his perch on the International Space Station, a French astronaut watched a long-running Russian space module break into pieces in a shower of fireworks. What's more, he caught the event on video.

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The space station module was retired on July 26 after 20 years of service on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). Pirs (DC1) was undocked from the Russian Zvezda module and ...

For nearly 20 years, Russia's Pirs docking compartment served as one of the primary ports for vehicles arriving and departing from the International Space Station. On Monday (July 26), though, it was ...

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 ...

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 ...