A Proton-M launched Russia's long-delayed Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module from Baikonur toward the ISS; after an eight-day chase it docked to the Zvezda module, though a subsequent thruster software glitch briefly spun the station out of orientation before the crew regained control.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 20.3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Proton-M flight
- Date and time
- 21 July 2021, 14:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2021-066
- Launches in 2021
- 69th of 146
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