Zvezda

Zvezda provided early crew quarters, life support, communications, flight control and propulsion systems. Many of these functions have been supplanted by later modules, but Zvezda remains a structual and functional center of the station.

Credit: NASA	Zvezda Service Module during construction.
Artist rendering of the ISS. The components, left to right, are:     Zvezda     Zarya     Unity	Credit: NASA
Credit: NASA	Line drawing of the ISS after the addition of the Zvezda Service Module.
Zvezda Service Module being transported to the launch area, 6 July 2000.	Credit: NASA
Credit: NASA	Zvezda Service Module, onboard a Russian Proton Rocket, launches at 04:56 GMT, 12 July 2000 from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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