why do we have to crash the ISS into the ocean? Can’t we send it out of Earth’s orbit safely, to crash on another planet, the sun or just keep going? Also: why can’t we do this with all the space junk that orbits the earth now?
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Right now do ISS have to use a bit of fuel from time to time, to not be dragged down on earth, so there has to be a bit of fuel on the station. If you wanted to push the statin away from earth and let’s say to the moon, would you need a moon racket! Imagine how much trouble it would be to move a moon rocked into space, attach it to the station and then start it all, and what if ISS breaks while the rocked begins pushing.
Instead, have we seen how debris from space, meteors and such things glow and burn up, even the good old space shuttle would burn up to nothing if it was not protected. So why not just let the station burn up on the way down, everything is from the earth in the first place. 🙂
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