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  • NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX guide the International Space Station’s destruction after its retirement in 2030.
  • The agency awarded an $843 million contract to SpaceX to build the so-called “U.S. Deorbit Vehicle.”
  • The SpaceX-built vehicle will effectively destroy the ISS by pushing the station into reentry from orbit.

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>- NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX guide the International Space Station’s destruction after its retirement in 2030. - The agency awarded an $843 million contract to SpaceX to build the so-called “U.S. Deorbit Vehicle.” - The SpaceX-built vehicle will effectively destroy the ISS by pushing the station into reentry from orbit. >. . [Archive](https://archive.today/iRc4w)

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

We should push it toward the Sun and not the Earth. If you think about all the energy that went into putting that "mass" into orbit, you shouldn't want to deorbit it. Keep it up there and reuse it someday when we have the infrastructure to melt it down.

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Or send it to Mars, so it can be used as an orbital storage station.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Good idea too. AOU let's go start a space company

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We need a pilot