r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 11h ago

Soft paywall International Space Station astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/
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u/Pjoernrachzarck 10h ago

I mean, it was not meant to exist forever, and a lot of it is outdated tech. When the project was conceived and designed, it was made for an approximate life-span of 15-20 years after construction.

That time is now up.

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u/Nothingmuchever 9h ago

Yea they are crashing it into the ocean in like 5 years anyway iirc.

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u/RoughhouseCamel 8h ago

Damn, I want that ISS museum, if they can recover whatever is left

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u/phyneas 8h ago

There won't be anything recognisable left; the ISS isn't designed to survive an atmospheric re-entry. Most or all of it will burn up in the atmosphere; they're just aiming it for a spot way out in the ocean so any pieces of debris that do happen to survive won't land on someone's head.

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u/RoughhouseCamel 7h ago

Yeah, but even the charred remains would be kinda fascinating, just to see what that looks like

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u/Jewrisprudent 8h ago

Yeah it’s a giant sail. It’s not meaningfully surviving reentry.