The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced that it plans to destroy the international space station (ISS) in 2031, and the debris will fall from space into the most remote area on earth, a no man's land in the South Pacific. The ISS has a design life of 15 years and has been in operation for more than 20 years < p > according to the plan, NASA will gradually "derail" this 930000 pound behemoth in January 2031, and the part that does not burn out in the atmosphere will sink into the no man's land "point Nemo" in the South Pacific. This is the most remote place on earth and the farthest place from human settlements in any direction. Satellites and rockets are buried here < p > according to CNN, Capitol Hill and other reports on February 2, "Nemo point" is about 3000 miles from the eastern coast of New Zealand and 2000 miles north of Antarctica. It is reported that since 1971, the United States, Russia, Japan and European countries have sunk more than 263 pieces of space debris here, which is also known as a spacecraft cemetery < p > < p > NASA said that in the last few days before the International Space Station derailed, some spacecraft will be sent to the international space station without personnel, just to help push it to earth. This process can be completed by three Russian Progress spacecraft and one Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft < p > as part of the transition plan, some commercially operated modules will be added to the space station in the next decade, with the aim that they will eventually separate and form their own commercial stations and join at least three other privately operated orbital facilities launched by 2030 < p > NASA said it would become a customer of private operators rather than running its own facilities, just as it currently buys seats with SpaceX to put astronauts into orbit. Several companies want to operate a commercial space station, including axiom space, Bezos's "blue origin" and Northrop Grumman
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