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    connect the Zarya control module with Unity node 1, Space Shuttles used PMA-2 and PMA-3 for docking. International Docking Adapter (IDA): Converts APAS-95...
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    Mini-Research Module 1 and launched in 2010 aboard Atlantis, on mission STS-132. In addition to simplifying space shuttle docking missions, Mir's docking module was...
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    Mir (redirect from Mir module)
    itself. The docking module, meanwhile, was launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-74 and mated to the orbiter's Orbiter Docking System. Atlantis...
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    Shuttle–Mir docking missions, from STS-71 to STS-91. The Shuttle rotated crews and delivered supplies, and one mission, STS-74, carried a docking module and a...
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    as the Mini-Research Module 1 (MRM 2, Russian: Малый исследовательский модуль 1) and formerly known as the Docking Cargo Module, is a component of the...
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    the docking systems together, docking the module with Kristal. The next day, the Space Shuttle Atlantis used the docking module's top hatch to dock with...
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    600 kg (25,600 lb). The adapters allow the docking systems used by the Space Shuttle and by Russian modules to attach to the node's hatches and berthing...
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    docking module was not installed for 1K's only spaceflight, however the Kristall module of the Mir space station was equipped with an APAS-89 docking...
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    STS-74 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    The shuttle delivered a pair of solar arrays along with the Russian-built Mir Docking Module to allow docking with the station by the space shuttle without...
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    active hybrid docking system, enabled it to dock with the Nauka module. The remaining five ports are passive hybrids, allowing for docking of Soyuz, Progress...
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    permanent docking connector for the now canceled Centrifuge Accommodations Module (CAM). When the Space Shuttle flew the Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules (MPLMs)...
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    the 1990s. Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. The STS-88 Space Shuttle mission followed two weeks after...
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    The docking mechanism of the Apollo was a "probe and drogue" system designed to allow the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) to dock with the Apollo...
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    docking node at the forward end of the module. This, in addition to the docking port at the rear of the spacecraft, allowed five additional modules (Kvant-1...
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    space shuttle was safer than NASA's". Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2017. Wade, Mark. "Mir-Shuttle Docking Module". Encyclopedia...
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    Berthing Mechanism (CBM) interface used to connect ISS modules to an APAS-95 spacecraft docking port. Three PMAs are attached to the US Orbital Segment...
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    launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on 7 February 2008, on flight STS-122. It is designed for ten years of operation. The module is controlled by the...
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    Spacehab's Research Double Module. In 1992, NASA modified Columbia to be able to fly some of the longest missions in the Shuttle Program history using the...
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    point. The module has three docking ports: one axially on the front end at the docking sphere, one on the Earth-facing side (nadir) of the docking sphere...
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    the APAS docking collar jointly developed by NASA and the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union for the mission. One end of the docking module was attached...
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     'Search'), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2, Russian: Малый исследовательский модуль 2), is a docking module of the International Space Station...
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    the Prichal module with its active hybrid docking port was only able to dock to the reconfigured port. With its docking, the number of docking ports on the...
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    of docking to the International Space Station The SpaceX Crew Dragon in the process of docking to the International Space Station The Space Shuttle program...
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    windows are used to conduct experiments, dockings and observations of Earth. It was launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour's mission STS-130 on 8 February...
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    command and lunar modules separated for the last time, the probe and forward docking ring were pyrotechnically separated, leaving all docking equipment attached...
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    panels modified docking and attitude control engine positions for redundancy during docking and de-orbit burns new Kurs NA approach and docking system which...
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    attaches to the Zarya module, and has docking ports intended for the Science Power Platform (SPP) and the Universal Docking Module (UDM). As in the early...
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    Space Shuttle fleet and the 88th after the Challenger disaster. It was dedicated to research in various fields, mainly on board the SpaceHab module inside...
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    STS-79 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    module in support of a Shuttle-Mir docking and the first flight of the SPACEHAB Double Module configuration. The forward portion of the double module...
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    Apollo 8, lacking a lunar module, did not have docking equipment; Apollo 9 flew the probe-and-drogue assembly used for docking along with other equipment...
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