The international space station was 25 years old

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Roskosmos photo on November 20, 2023, AviaStat.ru – is executed Today 25 years to "the space house" mankind — the International space station. Twenty five years ago, on November 20, 1998, from Baikonur Cosmodrome the carrier rocket "Proton-K" put to orbit the functional load pulley created in Russia "Dawn" — the first module of the International space station. About it reports press sluzhbaroskosmosa. The same year, on December 7, the Dawn module was docked to the nodal Unity module made in the USA delivered in space by the shuttle "Indevor" (STS-88 mission). So assembly began...
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Sergei Prokopyev
Last position: Astronaut-tester (Federal state-financed institution "Institute for scientific research TSPK named after Yu. A. Gagarina")
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Dmitry Aleksandrovich Petelin
Last position: Astronaut-tester (Federal state-financed institution "Institute for scientific research TSPK named after Yu. A. Gagarina")
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