NASA contracts for a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station

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1. Story
2. NASA awarded SpaceX a contract to develop the United States Deorbit Vehicle, the spacecraft that will perform the controlled re-entry of the station at the end of its operational life. The award turns the station's retirement from a policy statement into a procurement with a schedule, and it puts a date on the disappearance of the only microgravity research platform commercially available — which is the deadline every commercial station and every in-space manufacturing business is now working against.
3. Knowledge
4. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
5. International Space Station
6. In-space manufacturing
7. NASA contracts for a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station
8. Connections
9. International Space Station
10. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
11. In-space manufacturing
12. In-space manufacturing
13. The first paying private visitor reaches the International Space Station
14. A Russian anti-satellite test destroys Cosmos 1408
15. NASA contracts for a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station
16. International Space Station operations are planned to end
17. Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
18. Falcon 9
19. The commercial launch industry
20. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
21. A Falcon 9 first stage lands after an orbital launch
22. The first sixty Starlink satellites are deployed
23. NASA contracts for a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station
24. The fall in launch price per kilogram
25. International Space Station
26. Asteroid mining
27. The first commercial manufacturing product returns from orbit
28. NASA contracts for a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station
29. International Space Station operations are planned to end
30. Evidence
31. Records that NASA selected SpaceX to develop the vehicle that will perform the controlled deorbit of the International Space Station. V55 verification basis: the announcement was not retrieved in this session; the contract value is not quoted here for that reason.
32. Sets out the plan to operate the International Space Station to 2030, to transition low-Earth-orbit human spaceflight to commercially owned destinations, and to conduct a controlled deorbit at end of life. V55 verification basis: nasa.gov was not retrievable in this session; the report's publication year is not stated here because it was not confirmed.