It’s a shame they can’t move it to a higher orbit & leave it there for future generations. People a century or two from now will be curious about the earliest days of humans in space.
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Depends how far they boost it up. Once it’s in MEO instead of LEO decay is less of a problem, and there would be ample time to achieve further boosts. For example the GPS satellites will take millenia to move considerably closer to earth.
The article actually mentions the idea, but apparently it’s bound to physically fall apart after a while, and it’s a big thing that could make a lot of debris. I guess you could put it in a net, but I’m not sure how cool a bundle of scrap that used to be the ISS is. The smart folks at NASA seem sure there’s no point.
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It would be better to save a few sections as a museum and dismantle and recycle the rest of the materials in space.
We will eventually need to build space ships in orbit, so why not harvest the precious metals and such in orbit? It is currently very expensive to take materials off planet. The metals could be reused eventually and reforged into something else.
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We could start now and use the space station to begin! I mean it’s already up there.
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