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Good things come to those (modules) that wait. It's LAUNCH DAY for the #Nauka science lab! The long-delayed module finally gets its time to shine. Liftoff is set for 14:58:21 UTC / 10:58:21 EDT form Baikonur
Article from Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey)
nasaspaceflight.com/2021/07/nauka-…
Article from Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey)
nasaspaceflight.com/2021/07/nauka-…
With less than an hour to launch, let's take a trip through #Nauka's long history. There's a reason it's lovingly referred to as the "long suffering module."
A thread.... 1/x
A thread.... 1/x
#Nauka was originally a back-up to Zarya, in case that critical first ISS module was lost in a launch failure. Nauka, or FGB-2 as it was called then, was nearly complete when Zarya successfully launched in Nov. 1998. 2/x
