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Quest Joint Airlock

The Quest Joint Airlock attached to the end of Canadarm2 during its installation on the International Space Station.

Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

The Quest Joint Airlock is the primary airlock of the International Space Station, built so that spacewalks can use both American EMU suits and Russian Orlan suits. It launched on Space Shuttle mission STS-104 on 14 July 2001 and was attached to the starboard berthing port of Unity. Before Quest, Russian spacewalks in Orlan suits could only leave through the Zvezda service module, and American spacewalks in EMUs were only possible while a shuttle was docked and its airlock could be used. The Pirs docking compartment, which arrived on 16 September 2001, added another airlock for Orlan spacewalks.

Launched
12 July 2001

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

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

    Jared Owen

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

    Classic Aerospace History

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

    Real Engineering

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

    NASA Johnson

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

    NASA

  6. Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Space-to-Ground Antenna

    NASA

  7. Spacewalk 98: Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Antenna

    NASA

  8. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    NASA

  9. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    NASA

  10. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    NASA
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US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

NASA

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  2. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    Launch coverageNASA · 9:05:30

    Mission: Expedition 75

  3. Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Space-to-Ground Antenna

    Mission explainerNASA · 8:57:39

    Mission: U.S. Spacewalk 97

  4. Spacewalk 98: Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Antenna

    Launch coverageNASA · 8:48:15

    Mission: US Spacewalk 98

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

    DocumentaryClassic Aerospace History · 1:13:57

  8. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    Press briefingNASA · 28:10

    Mission: ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101

  9. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    Launch coverageNASA · 9:08:26

    Mission: US Spacewalk 100

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