![]() The Truss network provides solar panels and radiators to power the station and get rid of excess heat. The Truss Network uses Destiny to connect to the station. Destiny is connected to Harmony which then in turn is connected to Kibo, Columbus, and a visiting space craft such as Dragon or the Shuttle. It also has two of the Canadarm2 control stations on the ISS with the other location being in the Cupola. Destiny is most famous for it's experiments such as VEG-03 which grew romaine lettuce and cabbage. WORF was launched aboard STS-131 on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Destiny contains WORF a window the is used for scientific instruments. The Soyuz can fit 3 astronauts to the International Space Station.ĭestiny is the US laboratory, It was launched in 2001 aboard space shuttle Atlantis during STS-98. A spare Soyuz capsule is always docked to the ISS in the event of an emergency. As NASA was the only other space agency in the ISS agreement that had the capabilities to launch humans many responsibilities that formerly would be carried out using a Shuttle now had to be done with a Soyuz. Until the advent of the Crew Dragon and Space Shuttle, the main way to get up and down to the station used to be on the Soyuz Capsule. The Space Shuttle helped with Destiny, Unity and many more! The International Space Station was built with the help of the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle was used to dock with the International Space Station until STS-135, it also one of the rockets that contributed to build the International Space Station. Cygnus docks with the United States Orbital Segment while for Progress (similar to Soyuz) docks at Zvezda, the Russian Orbital Segment. They dock with the International Station to re-supply it. ![]() ![]() Progress and Cygnus are re-supply vehicles.
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