What do you think will happen when the I.S.S. is retired?

Question

Will it be sold off to some private corporation or will it be dismantled and sent off to the moon to be reused as living quarters and laboratories near the 2020 moon base N.A.S.A. is planning on building?

Answer 1

I think that letting the habitat modules from the I.S.S. burn up would be a waste of money, i mean heck there already up there, why waste more fuel to send inflatable habitats to the moon when there are habitats already in orbit, from what i understand about space there is no gravity so those habitats wouldn't weight much in space so the fuel needed to tow them to the moon would be minimum, heck i bet a couple P.A.M.'s would be enough to slow them down so when they got to the moon they wouldn't just crash into the moon uncontrollably, but hey i guess N.A.S.A. is made of cash.

Answer 2

crash and burn, and soon, too.

2016, only 6 years operational after completion.

Answer 3

The ISS will have the same fate as MIR.... it will be shut down, and de-orbited so it'll fall into an ocean, someplace.  

Answer 4

I'm sure they will keep it in space but nobody will be living in it like they are now. they wouldn't burn it since it has so much information. check wikipedia that's where i found out most of the info

Answer 5

When NASA gets out of the space station business and concentrates on it's new lunar program the station will be operated by the other member nations for as long as possible.  Eventually equipment wears out and can replaced, the station can continue to be reboosted by the European Space Agency's  ATV.  When the time comes when needs to be deorbited it might be necessary to do so in pieces.  

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It would not be economical to develop equipment to launch station modules to the Moon especially this would be already presumably worn out. Getting a station modual to the Moon also involves slowing it down once it gets to the Moon in order to get into orbit or to slow down enough to land.  This would all involve a lot of effort when a new piece of equipment could be sent to a lunar base with the system already under development to do so.

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Answer 6

It will probably get to burn and crash into the Pacific, as the Mir space station did.  It's disposable.  But it could crash uncontrolled into Australia, like America's first space station - Skylab.