{"id":173254,"date":"2023-10-01T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/nasa-begins-plans-for-1-billion-spacecraft-to-safely-pull-international-space-station-back-to-earth"},"modified":"2023-10-01T15:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:23:49","slug":"nasa-begins-plans-for-1-billion-spacecraft-to-safely-pull-international-space-station-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/nasa-begins-plans-for-1-billion-spacecraft-to-safely-pull-international-space-station-back-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA Begins Plans for $1 Billion Spacecraft to Safely Pull International Space Station Back To Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-begins-plans-for-1-billion-spacecraft-to-safely-pull-international-space-station-back-to-earth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has officially called upon companies to submit designs for a so-called U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV) for the International Space Station (ISS). This pioneering spacecraft would have the crucial mission of safely bringing the ISS back to Earth, marking the ISS\u2019s planned retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented project comes with an estimated price tag \u201ca little short of about $1 billion,\u201d as reported earlier this year by Kathy Lueders, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Although initial considerations revolved around employing Russian spaceships for this monumental task, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacechatter.com\/category\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA<\/a>, in a strategic shift, opened the floor this month to proposals from U.S. industry. The deadline for these innovative submissions is set for November 17, following the initiation of the call for designs on September 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has officially called upon companies to submit designs for a so-called U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV) for the International Space Station (ISS). This pioneering spacecraft would have the crucial mission of safely bringing the ISS back to Earth, marking the ISS\u2019s planned retirement. The unprecedented project comes with an estimated price tag \u201ca little short [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}