Destiny (ISS module)

Destiny was launched to ISS aboard the Space Shuttle mission STS-98. First, the Shuttle SRMSS (Canadarm) was used to remove Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA 2) from Unity node's forward port to make room for the new module. PMA-2 was temporarily stowed on the forward berthing ring of the Z1 truss. Destiny was "grabbed" by the robotic arm at 11:23, lifted out of Atlantis cargo bay, and berthed to the forward port of Unity. Two days later, PMA-2 was moved to its semi-permanent location on the forward port of Destiny. Several years later, on November 14, 2007, the Harmony module was attached to the forward port of the Destiny laboratory, and PMA 2 was again relocated to the forward port of Harmony. The addition of Destiny increased the habitable volume by 3,800 cubic feet, an increase of 41 percent. File:STS-98 Atlantis on the crawler.jpg|Atlantis with Destiny in its cargo bay heads to the launch pad File:AstroVan.JPG|The Shuttle crew heading out for the launch File:Liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-98 (KSC-01PP-0277).jpg|Liftoff File:Curbeam works on the Destiny module.jpg|Astronaut on EVA with Destiny File:Sts098-312-0020.jpg|The newly expanded ISS with Destiny Laboratory, February 2001 == Laboratory structure ==

The U.S. laboratory module is long and wide. A -diameter window is located on one side of the center module segment. Each of the two berthing ports on Destiny contains a hatch. Both hatches are normally open, and remain open unless a situation arises requiring a module to be isolated. Each hatch has a window. The hatches can be opened or closed from either side. The hatches have a pressure interlock feature, which prevents the hatch from being opened if there is a negative pressure across the hatch (higher pressure on the outside of the hatch). The hatch openings are a square-like six sided shape - which is associated to that module. Destiny has a optically pure, telescope-quality glass window located in an open rack bay used primarily for Earth science observations. Station crewmembers use very high quality video and still cameras at the window to record Earth's changing landscapes. A window shutter protects the window from potential micrometeoroid and orbital debris strikes during the life of the ISS. The crew manually opens the shutter to use the window. Imagery captured from Destinys window has given geologists and meteorologists the chance to study floods, avalanches, fires and ocean events such as plankton blooms in a way never seen before, as well as given international scientists the opportunity to study features such as glaciers, coral reefs, urban growth and wild fires. Specifications and Sunita L. Williams work the controls of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System in the Destiny laboratory. • Length: • Diameter: • Mass: • Pressurized Volume: ==Equipment==

and STS-122 mission specialists working on robotic equipment in the US lab As with the European and Japanese laboratories of the station, payloads inside Destiny are configured around International Standard Payload Racks (ISPRs), that can be removed or reconfigured for various experiments and equipment. Made out of a graphite composite shell, each rack weighs about , and is about high, and wide. The lab racks house the system hardware in removable modular units. The stand-offs provide space for electrical connections, data management systems cabling for computers, air conditioning ducts, thermal control tubes and more, all of which support the space station's equipment racks. The freezer is used both to store samples and reagents on the station, and to transport them to and from the space station in a temperature controlled environment. Currently installed at the main observation window of Destiny is the Agricultural Camera (AgCam). It is a multi-spectral imaging system built and primarily operated by students and faculty at the University of North Dakota. Its purpose is to take frequent images, in visible and infrared light, of vegetated areas on the Earth and promises to deliver a greater effectiveness for in-season agriculture applications research and operational decision support than current satellite systems such as Landsat. ==Veggie==

In 2016 the ISS crew operated Veg-03 experiment. In November they harvested a crop of edible romaine lettuce which contributed to the crew's meal. Also samples of cabbage are returned to Earth for testing as part of the experiment. This uses the Veggie experiment module in Destiny, which can provide light and nutrients for plant growth experiments. ==Destiny nadir window==

The nadir window is formally known as the U.S. Laboratory Science Window, has the "...highest quality optics ever flown on a human occupied spacecraft...", according to NASA, and can support taking Earth observations/images. In 2010 a research facility was brought to the station, called WORF, and the first photo with it was taken in January 2011. WORF was delivered by ISS Flight 19A (which was STS-131) . Another cross-over of the Star Trek franchise and space exploration was the naming of Space Shuttle Enterprise. A similar window is Nauka module's porthole window. ==In media==

• The module Destiny is featured in the 2013 film Gravity. • The module, identified as "the 2001 module Destiny", was originally intended to be the small section of Alpha (the future name of the ISS) used as a throne at the end of the 2017 film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and covers this role in the novelization, but, in the final shooting of the film, it was replaced by the Apollo command and service module Destiny 2005, modified with artificial gravity and a speakerphone-like radio system. ==See also==