SpaceX Is Building A New Rocket to Destroy the International Space Station | Space

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is being adapted to make it possible to disassemble the International Space Station which has become obsolete and is nearly ready for abandonment.

The station been continually crewed since it became fully operational in 2000. But the space station is showing its age in terms of technology and general wear and tear.

NASA engineers and scientists say the International Space Station is too large to return to Earth. Re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere most assuredly would destroy it, NASA says.

It also is too big to send into an orbit where it’s out of the way of future missions and simply could orbit the Earth as a kind of space ghost ship…