page_title: Pirs (ISS module)
hierarchical_section_title: Pirs (ISS module)
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Pirs taken during STS-110 fly around.
context_page_description: Pirs – also called Stykovochny Otsek 1 and DC-1 – is a Russian module on the International Space Station. Pirs was launched on 14 September 2001, and is located on the Zvezda module of the station. It provides the ISS with one docking port for Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, and allows egress and ingress for spacewalks by cosmonauts using Russian Orlan space suits.
context_section_description: Pirs (Russian: Пирс, meaning "pier") – also called Stykovochny Otsek 1 (SO-1) (Russian: Стыковочный отсек, "docking module") and DC-1 (docking compartment) – is a Russian module on the International Space Station (ISS). Pirs was launched on 14 September 2001, and is located on the Zvezda module of the station. It provides the ISS with one docking port for Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, and allows egress and ingress for spacewalks by cosmonauts using Russian Orlan space suits.
caption: The Pirs module attached to
  the International Space Station.
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