Astronauts leave ISS in first-ever medical evacuation

The ISS is set to be decommissioned after 2030, with its orbit gradually lowered until it breaks up in the atmosphere over a remote part of the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo, a spacecraft graveyard.

International Space Station

Credit: NASA

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