NASA is aiming to build a special spacecraft capable of guiding the InternationalSpaceStation to a safe deorbit position when it’s decommissioned in 2030.
Details of the plan were laid out in recent days when the White House released its budget request for 2024.
However, the final cost of the tug could reach almost $1 billion, according to comments made on Monday by Kathy Lueders, chief of NASA’s human spaceflight program. The space station went into service two decades ago as a place for astronauts to live and work, performing science experiments in microgravity conditions. But its aging design means the facility, which orbits 250 miles above Earth, will be destroyed in a few years from now.
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