Astronaut captures sparkling 'shooting star' video as Russian space station module falls to Earth From his perch on the International Space Station, a French astronaut watched a long-running Russian space module break into pieces in a shower of fireworks. What's more, he caught the event on video. The European Space Agency's Facebook page shows a sped-up timelapse of the module, called Pirs, meeting its fiery demise Monday (July 26) under the watch of Thomas Pesquet. https://www.space.com/space-station-pirs-module-deorbit-video?utm_source=notification