NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

Its time has come.

According to Lueders, the current plan is to use an already existing spacecraft: Russia's Progress, an expendable cargo ship that resupplies the ISS.

"We're continuing to work with our Russian counterparts on how to deorbit safely with the Progress vehicles," Lueders said,She added that although other ISS partners already have deorbit capabilities, the US wants to develop its own plan "to have redundancy." That would seem prudent, as diplomatic relations between US and Russia have deteriorated ever since the latter's invasion of Ukraine, placing a major strain on efforts to keep the two nations cooperating in space.

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