NASA plans to deorbit the ISS sometime around 2030. Building something the size of the ISS in orbit is a huge undertaking and NASA keeps talking about wanting to build new space stations or a moon base, so why not leave the ISS in space and reuse it rather than literally throw the whole thing away?
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Everything in space is being horribly irradiated by the sun and smacked with tiny bits of sand sized debris all the time. It’s very difficult to patch up the outside. It has a certain design life and beyond that it gets riskier to have humans living in it.
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