U.S. Plan To Crash Space Station Is Condemned By Space Agency Leaders

America’s plan to destroy the International Space Station by having it burn up and crash into the Pacific Ocean should be canceled because it would rob the public of one of the greatest technological feats in the history of civilization, former leaders of NASA and the European Space Agency say.

NASA’s blueprint for sending the International Space Station on a peacetime suicide mission that would cause it to crash into the Antarctic Ocean and explode would wipe out Polaris, the pinnacle of human ingenuity, says Jean-Jacques Dourdan, who was director general of the European Space Agency when the ISS was being built and expanded.

In an interview, Dordain said the decision to destroy the space station should be reversed and the ISS should be launched into a higher orbit as a gift to future generations of the new century.

Dodin was so disturbed by the prospect of a death sentence being imposed on the International Space Station that he teamed up with his longtime friend and partner in building the station, former NASA administrator Michael Griffin, to launch a worldwide appeal for a moratorium on executions.

The twin giants of the International Space Station (ISS) project have written a joint letter to the five space agencies that are allies of the ISS, and to the billions of people around the world who stand to lose an irreplaceable treasure trove of technology, urging them to give the floating space station a second life for centuries to come.

“As two of the builders of the ISS, we encourage those in charge to consider options other than destroying one of Earth’s greatest achievements,” Dordain told me.

The widely admired secretary-general said the master builders who constructed the ISS would rather “hand it over to future generations and let them decide the fate of the ISS for centuries to come”.

NASA is the ISS Deep Underwater World A new white paper calls for a “de-orbit vehicle” to save the space station from a deadly plunge into Earth, which would see both spacecraft end their lives in remote areas of icy ocean.

Space Station Allies began assembling the ISS 25 years ago, and NASA now aims to decommission and demolish the $100 billion palace in the sky around 2030.

But William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s longtime ISS strategy director, Testified in Congress The agency’s relinquishment of control of the space station could be accomplished in a number of ways, including handing operations over to the rapidly expanding commercial space sector.

He told the Senate Space Subcommittee that many of the ISS’s modules are likely to have a “structural life” well beyond 2030.

After directing Construction of the International Space Station While at NASA, Gerstenmaier is now an independent Space powerhouse SpaceXand will be invaluable in any project to transform the space station into a fantastical orbital museum.

Ironically, NASA SpaceX, creator of the revolution Such as developing the next generation of reusable Starship rockets to accelerate humanity to the Moon and Mars, and building specially designed spacecraft to act as Styx-like tugboats to guide the ISS to its demise.

NASA is paying Elon Musk’s SpaceX $843 million to complete the very-short-lived ISS Terminator vehicle. “Alongside the space station,” NASA leaders revealed in a press release, and the ill-fated SpaceX booster will ” destructively split As part of the re-entry process.”

But the best space architect Dodain and Griffin Instead of special operations for SpaceX’s spacecraft, the proposal calls for a mission to be the savior, not the assassin, of the International Space Station.

In their global appeal to save the space station, world-renowned aerospace engineer twins Dordain and Griffin say the very booster NASA is ordering to destroy the ISS could also power it higher into the heavens, where it could safely orbit Earth for centuries.

“Moving the ISS from its current altitude of 400 kilometers to a circular orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers would require a boost of about 220 meters per second, roughly the same as that required for precise deorbit control,” they explain. Open Letter,Publisher: Space NewsTo our colleagues, friends and allies across our space partners with whom we have built our orbital base.

“The question we ask of this generation is, since we have to build a boost stage anyway, wouldn’t it be better to use the boost stage to put the ISS into a higher orbit for future generations to use, rather than destroying the ISS on re-entry?”

Space exploration activist Rick Tumlinson has welcomed a new transatlantic alliance between legendary European and US space agencies to create a new future for the International Space Station.

Tumlinson has long advocated for human habitation in what he calls “free space,” as well as on the Moon and Mars. Earthlight FoundationIn an interview, he said ISS advocates must now appeal to other ISS allies and enlist the help of astronauts who have been transformed by their time on the station.

“I also believe that the astronauts who were aboard this spacecraft [the ISS] We will come together for this purpose,” he says.

“In fact, for the sake of our two countries’ heritage, why not invite Russia to collaborate on this effort?” he said, adding that he would then aim to lobby the Japanese and Canadian space agencies to thwart plans to jettison the ISS.

“I see this battle as a turning point from the throwaway culture of the past to a new circular space economy that provides a model for the people of Earth,” he says. “At a time when future generations are focused on saving the planet, it’s absurd that an institution believed by many to be a pioneer of the future would want to destroy one of the most important buildings in human history and bomb the planet.”

In North America and Europe, Tumlinson is considered one of the leading forces in the burgeoning New Space sector, where dynamic designers of independent rockets and spaceports are rapidly changing the trajectory of human spaceflight. His venture capital firm, Space Fund, is New Space Rising StarFrom SpaceX to the original potential inventors. Trans-Mars Express, Starshipthe builders of the future space station Axiom Voyager.

At the same time, Tumlinson says potential supporters of the ISS in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives need to be made aware that booster technology to rescue the ISS may be ready soon, that space leaders support the “Save Our Station,” or SOS, mission, and that advocates for intercontinental aerospace advances are likely to rally around the project.

The U.S. Congress has begun deliberation on the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024, which Roadmap for Destroying the StationTumlinson has begun writing letters to members of Congress urging them to protect the ISS as a universal treasure of the new space age.

“I am among the many citizens and space leaders, including members of both parties and independents, who view the ISS as a major achievement and are deeply concerned about a potentially tragic decision to remove it from orbit and destroy it.”

“We propose to move this historic structure into storage orbit using a NASA-contracted ‘space tug’ or other means and to designate the U.S. portion of the space station (originally called ‘Freedom’) as a national heritage site.”

“This issue has not yet received national attention, but I can assure you it will soon,” he said in the lawsuit.

Tumlinson, a respected expert on the “commercial spaceflight revolution” who has already been called to testify before Congress six times, said the legislative moratorium on the ISS could lay the groundwork for the next phase of the space station in orbit.

Future space enthusiasts “maybe can revive the ISS and bring it back to life,” he predicts.

Once the International Space Station is modernized, with enhanced life support and power systems and an AI-based collision avoidance system, it could once again host scientists and astronauts and function as a museum and spaceport open to astronauts from around the world.

Tumlinson said the ISS’s return could be broadcast live to fans scattered around the world aboard independent space stations in orbit, as well as to SpaceX explorers sent to build the first domed city on Mars and begin terraforming the planet.