{"id":121888,"date":"2023-11-21T16:29:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=121888"},"modified":"2023-11-21T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:29:47","slug":"iss-will-crash-to-earth-in-fiery-blaze-leaving-china-to-rule-space-alone-by-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/world-news\/iss-will-crash-to-earth-in-fiery-blaze-leaving-china-to-rule-space-alone-by-2031\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS will crash to Earth in fiery blaze leaving China to rule space alone by 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Space Station will crash to earth in a fiery inferno by the year 2031, leaving the Chinese to rule space alone.<\/p>\n

The official line is that the craft will be 'deorbited,' but that means that it will fall to Earth and make its way to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. An additional headache for NASA is that this means the sole space station orbiting Earth will be China\u2019s Tiangong outpost.<\/p>\n

And since NASA is restricted from working with China or visiting the station under US law, that means the country's space operation would be way out by itself. <\/p>\n

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NASA\u2019s goal is for commercial space stations to overlap with the end of the ISS, with first launches to begin \u201caround 2029,\u201d Camille Alleyne, deputy manager for NASA\u2019s commercial space station program at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, said.<\/p>\n

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The organisation has already thrown money behind commercial ventures. In December 2021, NASA funded three US companies a total of $415 million (\u00a3331 million) to look into developing space stations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to still be in low Earth orbit,\u201d says Alleyne. Missions to the Moon could be separated by years, but having a space station gives a \u201ccontinuous presence\u201d in space, she added. <\/p>\n

Supercluster reported that aging hardware on the ISS informed part of the decision to retire the legendary ISS. It's hoped that the private ventures will replace much of the work the ISS leaves behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a lot of science in microgravity that you cannot do here on Earth,\u201d says Frank de Winne, head of ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Germany.<\/p>\n

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