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NASA May Pay $1 Billion to Destroy the International Space Station. Here’s Why.

www.scientificamerican.com NASA May Pay $1 Billion to Destroy the International Space Station. Here's Why

The International Space Station—larger than a football field and weighing almost 450 tons—must eventually fall to Earth. It’s a delicate, dangerous process

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NASA May Pay $1 Billion to Destroy the International Space Station. Here's Why

www.scientificamerican.com /article/nasa-may-pay-1-billion-to-destroy-the-international-space-station-heres-why/

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It's a shame they can't move it to a higher orbit & leave it there for future generations. People a century or two from now will be curious about the earliest days of humans in space.
It would be better to save a few sections as a museum and dismantle and recycle the rest of the materials in space.

We will eventually need to build space ships in orbit, so why not harvest the precious metals and such in orbit? It is currently very expensive to take materials off planet. The metals could be reused eventually and reforged into something else.