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Destiny

The Destiny laboratory module, seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-108.

Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

Destiny, also called the U.S. Lab, is the main research laboratory for American experiments aboard the International Space Station. Boeing began building the 14,515-kilogram module in 1995 at the Michoud Assembly Facility and the Marshall Space Flight Center. Space Shuttle Atlantis carried it to orbit on STS-98 on 7 February 2001, where it was berthed to the forward port of Unity and switched on over five days. It was NASA’s first permanent orbital research station since Skylab was vacated in February 1974. Astronauts work inside its pressurised facility on research in many scientific fields.

Launched
7 February 2001

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

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  1. Inside Tiangong: Crew Life on China’s Three-Module Space Station

    The Space Race

  2. How Shuttle Missions Built the ISS: Unity, Destiny and Canadarm2

    Jared Owen

  3. Inside the ISS: How the Station Is Built, Powered and Lived In

    SLICE Science

  4. How the ISS Will Be Destroyed at Point Nemo in 2030

    The B1M

  5. ISS History: Assembly, Crises and the Plan to Deorbit by 2030

    Classic Aerospace History

  6. Thomas Pesquet’s Mission Alpha: Six Months Aboard the ISS

    Free Documentary – Space

  7. How the ISS Was Assembled: Modules, Gyros, Canadarm2 and Cooling

    Real Engineering

  8. ISS Tour With Nicole Mann and Kjell Lindgren: Modules and Daily Life

    NASA Johnson

  9. ISS Module Tour: Columbus, Kibo, Destiny and Zvezda in POV

    NASA
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ISS Module Tour: Columbus, Kibo, Destiny and Zvezda in POV

NASA

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  3. Thomas Pesquet’s Mission Alpha: Six Months Aboard the ISS

    DocumentaryFree Documentary – Space · 51:20

    Mission: Crew-2 (2021)

  5. How the ISS Will Be Destroyed at Point Nemo in 2030

    DocumentaryThe B1M · 32:29

    Mission: International Space Station deorbit

  8. ISS History: Assembly, Crises and the Plan to Deorbit by 2030

    DocumentaryClassic Aerospace History · 1:13:57

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