Nauka (ISS module)
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Nauka, also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module-Upgrade or simply Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is a module of the International Space Station (ISS). The MLM-U is funded by Roscosmos. In the original ISS plans, Nauka was to use the location of the Docking and Storage Module (DSM). Later, the DSM was replaced by the Rassvet module and Nauka was moved from Zarya's nadir port to Zvezda's nadir port.
Forward view of Nauka and attached to it from the Cupola, during the Russian VKD-51 spacewalk in January 2022.
Experiment Airlock berthed and Soyuz MS-23 docked Nauka; Egressing payloads outside the station
A Russian Research Module docked to Zvezda (left) and MLM docked to Zarya (right) in an early 2000s concept.
Nauka undergoing tests at Khrunichev in July 2020, a month before it was shipped to Baikonur.
Roscosmos
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The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known simply as Roscosmos, is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research.
Roscosmos's headquarters in Moscow, Russia.
The Hall of Space Technology in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia. The exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following Russian/Soviet inventions: the first satellite, Sputnik 1 (a ball under the ceiling); the first spacesuits (lower-left corner); the first human spaceflight module, the Vostok 3KA (center); the first Molniya-type satellite (upper right corner); the first space rover, Lunokhod 1 (lower right);
Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov on EVA (February 2012)
The Zarya module was the first module of the ISS, launched in 1998.