Roscosmos
After completing a two-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS) that began with the launch aboard a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 24, Russia's Prichal docking node successfully attached itself to the new Nauka module earlier today...at 7:19 AM, Pacific Standard Time (10:19 AM, Eastern Standard Time).
With the arrival of Prichal, construction has officially concluded on Russia's side of the ISS; an endeavor that began in late 1998 when its Zarya module was mated to NASA's Unity node during space shuttle Endeavour's STS-88 mission.
Here are photos (taken by Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov) of Prichal approaching the ISS courtesy of the modified Progress freighter that it was attached to for launch. Supposedly, even SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule should be able to dock with the new Russian component in the future... Stay tuned.
Roscosmos / Anton Shkaplerov
Roscosmos / Anton Shkaplerov
Roscosmos / Anton Shkaplerov
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NASA
Roscosmos and NASA begun the negotiations on the “harmonization”of the technical standards on the ISS, said Dmitry Rogozin. Among other things, it will allow to dock Crew Dragon to #Prichal using a docking adapter. https://t.co/YargmtbQxn pic.twitter.com/KyK2HaYawb
— Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey) November 29, 2021
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