National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Kvant Gallery

A mockup of the Mir space station including the Kvant astrophysics module. The mockup is on display in the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy in Moscow. Photograph taken by J. Kelley Beatty. Provided courtesy of Sky & Telescope .

Photograph of Mir with Kvant module and Soyuz TM-3 supply ship.

Artist's impression of the space shuttle Atlantis docking with Mir space station. Lake Baikal is in the background. The Kvant module is shown with the solar panels added to it, which were transferred from the Kristall module.

Cutaway diagram of the Kvant astrophysics module (courtesy of Sky & Telescope)