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SpaceX given $1.2B to destroy International Space Station (9news.com.au)
3 points by yvessy on July 2, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Why do we want to destroy one of the most historical achievements of the century? Would it be that costly to move it somewhere else and make it a museum in a few hundred years when space travel becomes cheap?


Unless you pay the $1B a year or so for a few hundred years to maintain it in orbit or the massive cost to get it out of Earths orbit, it will eventually succumb to gravity and crash into the Earth.


I was confused at first by the "up to US$843 million ($1.26 billion)" till I realized it was a currency conversion from US to Australian.


The mother of all clickbait lol




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