Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy is pictured during a seven-hour and 19-minute spacewalk to ready the Pirs docking compartment ahead of its upcoming departure.
iss065e085268 (June 2, 2021) — Expedition 65 Flight Engineer and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy is pictured during a seven-hour and 19-minute spacewalk to ready the Pirs docking compartment ahead of its upcoming departure. The Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, being launched soon from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, will replace Pirs on the Zvezda service module’s Earth-facing port.