SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has suggested the first-to-date cancellation of the International Space Station (ISS), stating that it is “its objective” and “very little” incremental utility.
“This is the time to start preparing to argue @Space_Station. It has fulfilled its purpose. There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars, ”Musk wrote on her social networking platform X.
“The decision (for Deorbit ISS) is dependent on the President (Donald Trump), but my recommendation is as soon as possible. I advise after 2 years from now, ”The world’s richest person said, journalist Eric Burger responded to a comment on his post.
In 2021, the previous Biden administration extended the ISS’s employed lifetime by the end of June 2030, and in June last year, Elon Musk’s SpaceX was awarded a $ 843 million contract for developing a spacecraft which ISS Could attach to and guide out of the orbit.
Such settlement will break the ISS as it passes through the atmosphere.
A prominent partner on the ISS program, SpaceX has been contracted by NASA to deliver astronauts and cargo to the station.
Musk, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, has established himself as a prominent advisor to the US President, who in the second term is the efficiency of the former major government or the cost-cutting effort of the new US government of Dogi.
NASA replied
A NASA spokesperson said the current plans of the US Space Agency “Call to use the International Space Station, and use future commercial space stations, in low earth orbit, to conduct groundbreaking science, with The same training ground for crew missions for the Moon and Mars “.
NASA spokesperson said in a statement, “We are eager to hear more about the Trump administration plans for our agency and expand the exploration for all.”
International Space Station
Launched in November 1998, the International Space Station was jointly built by five national space agencies: Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States.
It has been a prominent place of NASA’s human spaceflight initiative for the last three decades, serving as a primary place where astronauts live and do research in orbit.
Since November 2000, the ISS has always members of at least one crew on the board at all times.
(With Bloomberg input)
