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Former Space Agency Leaders Horrified by Plan to Destroy Space Station, Say It Would Be Easier to Save It
Save the ISS Last month, NASA awarded SpaceX an almost $1 billion contract to develop a "US Deorbit Vehicle" capable of pulling the International Space Station out of orbit and burning it up in the Earth's atmosphere. The aging orbital …