While it seems hard to believe, the International Space Station (ISS) was put into orbit more than 25 years ago. Crews of astronauts from multiple nations have been living up there since 2000. For all that time, the ISS has been zipping along in Earth’s orbit at roughly 17,500 miles per hour. But all of that will be coming to an end in the near future. The mission of the ISS has been extended a couple of times already, but it is scheduled to shut down in 2030. So what do we do with it then? Someone will have to deal with it and NASA has just awarded an almost one billion dollar contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation to get the job done. However, it’s worth asking if “deorbiting” the ISS is really the smartest thing to do. (Associated Press)
NASA has awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to build the vehicle that will bring the International Space Station out of its longtime…
