Russia has completed the assembly of its segment of the International Space Station. Yesterday, on November 26, the press services of Roscosmos and NASA announced the successful docking of the Berth module to the ISS.
The description of the video posted on the Roscosmos YouTube channel indicates that the docking of the Berth to the multipurpose laboratory module Nauka was performed on November 26 at 18:25 Moscow time. At 22:30 cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov went inside the "new thing" of the ISS.
Congratulations on the successful docking of the Berth node module
Berth became the last module of the Russian segment of the ISS. Previously, it was planned that the Scientific and Energy Module (NEM) would join it, but due to the long-term delay in sending the Nauka module to the ISS, the NEM decided to make the basic element of the promising Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS).
According to Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, the Berth node module, due to its design features, will allow to work out technologies that will be applied to ROSS in the future and will allow "making it eternal."
