Module of Russian ISS segment to be undocked and flooded on July 23

The cosmonauts of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) have begun to prepare the Pirs module for undocking. The module will be undocked from the station with the help of the Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft, Roscosmos reports. “The Pirs docking module, which will be replaced by the new multipurpose laboratory module Nauka, is planned to be undocked by the Progress MS-16 cargo vehicle from the International Space Station on July 23 at 16:17 Moscow time. It will be flooded in the Pacific Ocean after about four hours,” the message from the space corporation said. Interestingly, the Progress MS-16 cargo vehicle is dubbed after the main character of the Russian classic story "Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev - "Gerasim".