The ISS had been set for decommission in this decade and NASA says, extension enables a seamless transition to one or more commercially owned and operated destinations, in low earth orbit through the late 2020s.
The slow advance of the ocean has led Welsh political leaders to recommend the town be decommissioned beginning in 2045 and for the town to disappear by 2050.
Helium-3 is only produced when the tritium in a nuclear bomb decays, and since we're decommissioning more and more nuclear bombs, we're running out of helium-3.
To them, a decommissioned missile silo or a bunker in some country left off half the world's maps with provisions to last decades off the grid is less than a day's work. So why not?
And then for the 2025 budget plan, originally That was supposed to be 10 new ships, and now they're only going asking for six new ships again, and they want to decommission 19, so that's then down minus 13.
After 22 years, hundreds of astronauts from 20 different countries and countless scientific advances, the ISS will be decommissioned by the end of the decade.