Rassvet (ISS Module)

Rassvet, Russian for first light, is a Russian module of the International Space Station, also called Mini-Research Module 1 and formerly the Docking Cargo Module. Its design is similar to the Mir Docking Module that flew on STS-74 in 1995. It is used mainly for cargo storage and as a docking port for visiting spacecraft, and it has two docking units, one attached to the nadir port of the Zarya module and one for a Soyuz or Progress ship. Rassvet was carried to the station aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-132 on 14 May 2010 and connected on 18 May 2010, and Soyuz TMA-19 made the first docking with it on 28 June 2010. It was designed and built by Energia from the pressurized hull of a ground test mock-up of the cancelled Science Power Platform, and it carried outfitting equipment for the later Nauka module.