MRM-2 "Poisk" docks with the International Space Station powered by Progress M-MRM spacecraft

http://www.spaceflightnews.net - The new Mini-Research Module-2 (MRM-2), named Poisk, the Russian word for explore, docked with the International Space Station today at 10:44 a.m. EST while flying over Kazakhstan.

Poisk was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket on
Nov. 10, 2009, at 9:22 a.m. EST. The module will serve as an additional
docking port for Russian spacecraft, a second airlock for Russian-based spacewalks
and a platform for external science experiments.

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