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 it is a flying bullet. All the pieces of it are flying bullets. Anything breaks off, it is a flying bullet to pierce anything else in orbit.
A fleck of paint at orbital speed.
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