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NASA Will Pay SpaceX Up to $843 Million to Destroy the International Space Station. Last week, the space agency awarded Elon Musk’s company a contract worth up to $843 million to build a vehicle capable of launching into low-Earth orbit, attaching to the ISS and guiding it into the Pacific Ocean. Though the station’s international partners agreed that 2030 will mark the end of its funding—and Russia’s space agency plans to leave the operation by 2028.. the deorbiting process could begin while astronauts are still on board. First, the station could lower itself to an altitude of roughly 205 miles. Then, as the final humans prepare to depart, the SpaceX vessel would launch, roughly a year before splashdown is anticipated,

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech...332942.cms

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