The International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, seen from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011 (USA time). It is the first-ever image of a space shuttle docked to the International Space Station.Russia Plans to Sink the International Space Station in 2020 -- FOX News
Russia's space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station -- a space base the world's scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth -- will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, just like its Russian predecessor, Mir.
"We will be forced to sink the ISS. We cannot leave it in orbit as it is a very complicated and a heavy object," Roscosmos' deputy head Vitaly Davydov said in an interview posted on the agency's website.
"We have agreed with our partners that the ISS would function roughly until 2020," he noted.
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My Comment: I betcha no one saw that coming in Washington.
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