Columbus (ISS module)

Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998.

It is the largest single ISS module.

Kibō is the largest single ISS module.

When that happens, Pirs could become the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned, and would be destroyed during atmospheric re-entry.

Mir-2 - the never-assembled successor to the Mir space station, the core of which is now Zvezda (ISS module)

Therefore, for each ISS module only one partner retains sole ownership.

The new Columbus (ISS module) is activated successfully on the International Space Station.

Will the US space agency name the new ISS module after comedian Stephen Colbert?

A number of ISS modules have also been built in Italy.