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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Because America doesn’t like Russia anymore. And russia want to go partner up with china. China also build its own space station the tiangong. The reason Because America refused to let china join up in the ISS program, which was absurd and narrow minded. Now they mess up and lost out on a chance to partner up with china to build a new ISS.
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