After more than two decades in orbit, the NASA is planning to end the International Space Station's journey. NASA has confirmed that the ISS will be decommissioned and deliberately brought down to ...
The International Space Station as seen from a Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2021. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said that NASA should deorbit the International Space Station ...
In a carefully orchestrated plan, NASA intends to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS), a spacecraft the size of a football field, into the South Pacific Ocean at Point Nemo in 2031. This ...
Growing air leaks, and the lack of a deorbit plan top the list of concerns for the aging space station. Reading time 3 minutes The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth since 1998, ...
The space station is getting closer to retirement, and it's still in need of a deorbiting vehicle to lower it to its fiery death. Reading time 3 minutes At 12:50 p.m. ET today (November 8), NASA and ...
NASA announced late last month that SpaceX would be responsible for building a spacecraft to destroy the International Space Station. The aging orbital outpost is reaching the end of its operational ...
MILAN—NASA does not plan to launch SpaceX’s International Space Station (ISS) deorbit vehicle until it is sure the follow-on to accommodate astronauts and microgravity experiments is ready, Deputy ...
CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA’s hard-fought battle for a supplemental budget allocation to pay for a U.S. vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) has fallen victim to congressional spending ...