Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Photos of the Day: Nauka Begins One of Its Roles as the Space Station's Newest Docking Port...

The Soyuz MS-18 vehicle is docked to the Nauka module at the International Space Station (ISS)...on September 28, 2021.
ESA / Thomas Pesquet

Several hours ago, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet took these amazing photos showing the Soyuz MS-18 capsule relocating from its docking port on the International Space Station's (ISS) Rassvet module to Russia's brand-new Nauka science laboratory.

The Soyuz spacecraft—which carried cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei—docked to Nauka at 9:04 AM, Eastern Daylight Time (6:04 AM, Pacific Daylight Time) today.

The relocation clears the way for next month's arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 capsule...whose crew consists of cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, respectively.

Shipenko and Peresild will shoot scenes for a Russian movie [titled Vyzov (or The Challenge)] aboard the ISS after their Soyuz launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, October 5, and then docks to the Rassvet module later that day.

The Soyuz MS-18 vehicle departs from Russia's Rassvet module at the ISS...on September 28, 2021.
ESA / Thomas Pesquet

The Soyuz MS-18 vehicle in the process of relocating from the Rassvet module to the new Nauka science laboratory at the ISS...on September 28, 2021.
ESA / Thomas Pesquet

Orbiting above the night side of the Earth, the Soyuz MS-18 vehicle is about to dock with the Nauka module at the ISS...on September 28, 2021.
ESA / Thomas Pesquet

The current locations of all visiting vehicles at the ISS...as of September 28, 2021.
NASA

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