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The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock was installed on the International Space Station

The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is the first commercially funded airlock for the International Space Station. It was launched to the ISS on SpaceX’s CRS-21 Dragon spacecraft, on 6 December 2020. Using the Canadarm2 robotic arm, ground controllers at Mission Control, Houston detached the airlock from the trunk of the Dragon on 19 December 2020 and attached it to the port Common Berthing Mechanism on the Tranquility module of the International Space Station. According to NASA, “Bishop significantly increases the capacity for public and private research on the outside of the orbiting lab. The new science airlock also enables the deployment of larger satellites and the transfer of spacewalking tools and hardware inside and outside the station.” Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett/Glenn Benson Music: Lunar Landing by Silent Partner courtesy of YouTube Audio Library