According to a new piece published by collectSPACE this morning, historical preservation won't be a priority for NASA after the International Space Station shuts down.
According to collectSPACE, NASA plans to bring down the International Space Station in an uninhabited part of the Pacific Ocean in 2030. The publication reached out to NASA multiple times, but couldn't make contact with the person in charge of ensuring objects of importance make their way to museums.
The International Space Station Program has not discussed returning items solely for display, according to NASA. Any decision to return artifacts from the space station would be made at a later date based on available cargo space.
The old technology used to build the football-field long station that wasn't designed to come apart easily would make it difficult to display parts of it in a museum. Commercial space operations don't seem to care about preservation.
There are no proposals from commercial providers to reuse major structural parts of the International Space Station, according to a recent statement posted to its website.
You would think billionaires racing to claim space as their own would also compete to see who could return the most important objects. There has been no word on that.
If there is one thing the popular game franchise Subnautica has taught players, it is that downed space objects underwater are hard to explore and extract information from. It's weird to think that in the future, astronauts or divers will have to search the ocean floor for clues about humanity's history in outer space.
An economist was mocked for suggesting that we sell the moon.
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