NASA, SpaceX Unveil Spaceship That Will Take International Space Station Out of Orbit

Published on July 17, 2024

The International Space Station (ISS) is coming down. NASA and SpaceX leaders announced their plan on July 17 to retire the ISS safely while maintaining an uninterrupted human presence in low Earth orbit. Using the $843 million contract it won in June, SpaceX will create a one-off variant of the Dragon Cargo spacecraft that will direct the ISS into a controlled re-entry over a still-undecided area of ocean by 2030. Sarah Walker, SpaceX’s director of Dragon mission management, said the vehicle will have an enlarged service module or “trunk” that will hold six times more propellant—more than 35,000 pounds—and four times more power than the current Dragon spacecraft....

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