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  1. Photo: Mat Fascione / CC BY-SA 2.0

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    • How the ISS Will Be Destroyed at Point Nemo in 2030

      The B1M explains how the International Space Station was built from Zarya in 1998 onward and why it is planned to be brought down in 2030 by a specially modified SpaceX Dragon, ending in the ocean…

      Published 26 Mar 2025

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  4. Photo: NASA Hubble Space Telescope / Public domain

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  5. Photo: Shujianyang / CC BY-SA 4.0

    The Tiangong space station, launched into Earth orbit by China in 2021, is a continuing crewed mission rather than an accident or incident. The checked facts list its outcome only as in progress, with no deaths or survivors recorded.

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    Hubble Servicing Mission 4

    The last repair visit to Hubble, saved from cancellation

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    Servicing Mission 4 was the fifth and final astronaut visit to the Hubble Space Telescope, flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis as STS-125 from 11 May 2009. Seven astronauts installed two new instruments, repaired two failed ones in orbit for the first time, and replaced the gyroscopes and batteries that keep Hubble working.

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    Skylab

    America's first space station, wounded at launch

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    Skylab was NASA's first space station, built from Apollo hardware and launched on the last Saturn V on 14 May 1973. It lost its meteoroid shield and a solar array during the climb, was repaired in orbit by its first crew, hosted three crews for 171 days in all, and fell to Earth over Western Australia on 11 July 1979.

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  9. Photo: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya / Public domain

    Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

    A Hubble-sized mirror with 200 times the view

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    NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on the morning of 30 August 2026. It was sent towards the Sun-Earth L2 point, where the James Webb Space Telescope also sits.

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