Future
Pirs is scheduled to be detached from the nadir (bottom) port of the Zvezda module to make room for the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module Nauka, scheduled for launch no earlier than May 2013 as of March 2011. When that happens Pirs could become the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned, and would be destroyed during atmospheric re-entry.
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