Unity Node Fact Sheet
- First major US made portion of the ISS
- Was connected to the Zarya module at 1:15 p.m. CST, Thursday, December 10, 1998
- Will serve as a passageway to the U.S. laboratory module, U.S. habitation module and an airlock
- Has six hatches that serve as docking ports for other modules
- 15 feet long, 22 feet in diameter
- 4 Equipment Racks
- Fabricated of aluminum
- Contains more than 50,000 mechanical items, 216 lines to carry fluids and gases, and 121 internal and external electrical cables using six miles of wire
- See where it is on the current station.