ISS will "rest" in the heart of the Pacific

International Space Station (ISS) will be "resting" in the heart of the Pacific, after the end of the mission of its research in 2020, AFP information from the Federal Space Agency Russian (Roscosmos) said. "After finishing his mission to research, ISS will be sunk into the sea. It can not exist in orbit because of the volume is too large and complex, creating more space junk," Deputy Roscosmos director Vitaly Davydov said in Wednesday 27.07. International Space Station operations will end in 2020 - Photo: AFP Mr. Davydov said, is Russia and its partners have agreed to the decommissioning of the space station is worth $ 100 billion in 2020. In addition, he also said, "most likely" will have a new station was built later to replace the ISS. Thus, in 2020, ISS will take the "predecessor" of it as Russia's Mir space station to end the "life" in his heart the Pacific. In 2001, after 15 years, were Russian Mir station submerged in the "spaceship cemetery" near Christmas Island in the Pacific. It is known that ISS was born from the agreement of the five space agencies of the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe. It started construction in 1998 and completed a week ago after the final mission of Atlantis, and also mission ended program of the American space shuttle last 30 years. As originally planned, ISS will serve the scientific research until 2016. But then it was extended for 2020.

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