NASA Space Station Deorbit Planning Teleconference
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024 · 18:00 UTC
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/01Leadership from NASA and SpaceX will participate in a media teleconference to discuss the company’s selection to develop and deliver the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle, which will safely move the International Space Station out of orbit and into a remote area of an ocean at the end of its operations. Participants include Ken Bowersox, associate administrator at NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, Dana Weigel, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, and Sarah Walker, director of Dragon mission management at SpaceX.
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/03National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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/04International Space Station
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.