NASA Selects SpaceX To Destroy The International Space Station In 2030s (Credit: NASA)

[u/Busy_Yesterday9455]

[u/Narrow-Height9477]

Seems like a missed usaf (space force?) training opportunity.

[u/SiBloGaming → u/Narrow-Height9477]

Nope, leaves too much orbital debris lol. Destroy in this context means deorbit. Although it would be funny if SpaceX went up there with an empty Starship, and then deorbit the ISS in pieces inside the Starship, making it possible to present real parts of the ISS in museums.

[u/Flagrath → u/Narrow-Height9477]

What? Leaving a fully functional space station in space and keeping it maintained seems rather costly when swimming pools exist.

[u/TanaerSG → u/Flagrath]

I think he meant it could potentially be a good Space Force training exercise to bring down some sort of space craft, but IDK if that is even something Space Force would be interested in.

[u/jdhdowlcn → u/TanaerSG]

Eventually they will be, but we'll probably have to develop Orbital Defense Artillery first

[u/Flagrath → u/TanaerSG]

Upon getting it down the first step would be to place it in a giant swimming pool, I feel that a replica would do a better job for this purpose, although I doubt one will be needed because the model would likely need to be more modern then the ISS.

[u/Logisticman232 → u/Narrow-Height9477]

Training to do what?

[u/NotTravisKelce → u/Logisticman232]

To attack and destroy a space station.

[u/Logisticman232 → u/NotTravisKelce]

That would create so much debris the damages and costs of loss of available orbits would be worth billions of dollars.

Space debris creation is extremely taboo.

[u/NotTravisKelce → u/Logisticman232]

It was a joke dude.

[u/Logisticman232 → u/NotTravisKelce]

How am I supposed to tell?

[u/Mariohgrum → u/NotTravisKelce]

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