Russian duo complete decommissioning of Pirs ahead of removal from Station June 2, 2021 Outside the International Space Station (ISS), Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov have completed a near 7 hour extravehicular activity, or EVA/spacewalk, to finalize external preparations for the removal to the Pirs docking compartment that has served the Station for nearly 20 years. Delivered in 2001, Pirs will be removed from the ISS no earlier than 17 July 2021 to make room for the new Nauka science module on the Russian segment of the outpost. The main focus, however, was completion of decommissioning acti...