NASA has updated its plans to destroy the International Space Station as the floating laboratory reaches its end of life.
NASA released an updated version of the transition from the ISS to private and commercial missions when The International Space Station will finally be shut down.
This plan covers the work that will be needed to ensure it remains productive for the next decade, it says Independent.
The space agency will support the ISS until at least 2030, according to obligations of the current US government.
But the space station is three decades old, and it regularly faces technical problems, with astronauts reporting cracks, leaks and other problems with systems.
The new plan details exactly how The ISS will be destroyed. According to the latest document, the life of the station will come to an end in January 2031.
Work on bringing down the ISS remnants could begin in a year or so when the station is in orbit will begin to approach the Earth.
Due to the huge size of the ISS it will not burn in the atmosphere, therefore, its descent must be clearly controlled.
NASA hopes to do this by slowly maneuvering the spaceship, to let him fall to the ground.
Ultimately, the fall trajectory of the space station will be constructed so that the space station will crash into the uninhabited territory of the Pacific Ocean.
