SpaceX will help to crash the International Space Station
The International Space Station orbiting about 250 miles above Earth . NASA The International Space Station ( ISS ) is approach the terminal of its lifetime after more than two decades in low - Earth eye socket . When the sentence comes about six years from now , NASA and its outside partners will use a so - telephone “ space tug ” — officially known as the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle ( USDV ) — to head the ISS to a secure location from where it will then descend at speed and mostly incinerate up in Earth ’s atmosphere ....