Pirs

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Pirs (Russian: Пирс, meaning "pier") – also called Stykovochny Otsek 1 (SO-1; Russian: Стыковочный отсек, "docking module") and DC-1 (Docking Compartment 1) – was a Russian module on the International Space Station (ISS). Pirs was launched on 14 September 2001, and was located on the Zvezda module of the station.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Pirs (ISS module)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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