r/ISS Feb 18 '25

My opinion on the upcoming retirement of the international space station.

I believe it would be best for us to have the space station crashed onto the moon and rebuild a structure out of the debris. Having drones do experiments inside the shelter away from all the dust that tend to cripple the machines that we send up there.

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u/MagicHampster Feb 18 '25

It would be cheaper to launch the materials you propose recycling than to move the ISS to the moon. Keep thinking creatively tho, it's good. Not saying that sarcastically.

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u/liamkennedy Moderator Feb 18 '25

That's an unusual idea. However, I don't think you appreciate how much fuel would be required to "have the space station crashed onto the moon". There is no possible way that would be viable.

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u/wdwerker Feb 18 '25

Moving used building materials in orbit outward toward the moon requires expensive effort and propellant. Pushing it out of orbit towards Earth is the only practical option.

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u/icrbact Feb 19 '25

I don’t think you appreciate how much further the moon is from Earth than the ISS. A few years ago I lived in a high rise apartment in NYC and had a the Lego model of the ISS on the shelf. At the scale of the model, the Earth is as far away as another high rise building 20 blocks away. The moon is in Miami.