Farewell, Pirs; ISS module decommissioned, destructively reentered
Source: NASA Spaceflight
Date Published: 07/25/2021
After nearly 20 years in orbit serving as a docking port and airlock for the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), the Pirs module — also called Stykovochny Otsek 1, or Docking Compartment 1 (DC-1) — has become the first habitable element of the station to be decommissioned and permanently removed from the orbital complex.
