NASA gave SpaceX $843M contract to bring down station
NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to build the vehicle that will bring the International Space Station out of its longtime orbit of Earth.plan to burn the space station up on reentry and plunge what's left into the ocean, ideally at the beginning of 2031
when it hits the 32-year mark. The space agency rejected other options, like taking the station apart and bringing everything home or handing the keys to someone else. NASA gave SpaceX a $843 million contract to bring down the station - the biggest structure ever built off the planet.The space station is already is showing signs of age. Russia and the U.S. launched the first pieces in late 1998, and astronauts moved in two years later. Europe and Japan added their own segments, and Canada provided robotic arms. By the time NASA's shuttles retired in 2011, the station had grown to the size of a football field, with a mass of nearly 1 million pounds .
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