Primary Research Module
Nauka will be Russia's primary ISS research module. For some time, NASA's official plans included a second research module around the same size as Nauka, listed to be "under review", but it was eventually cancelled, leaving Nauka to be the only Russian research module besides Rassvet and Poisk (Mini-Research Module 2).
It has been proposed that Nauka include a small free-flying capsule that can be detached from the station for experiments outside of the ISS's microgravity environment.
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