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NASA needs $1 Billion 'Space Tug' to Deorbit ISS. Since the 356-foot-wide laboratory is too big to completely vaporize if left to naturally burn in Earth’s atmosphere, the space agency intends to send a US spacecraft to help deorbit the station and direct its reentry over the South Pacific.


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