Where Will Astronauts Go After The ISS Is Destroyed?

It'd be nice if they could somehow salvage the ISS wall where visiting emblems and signatures are posted.

Sorry, but after reading that title all I can think is: "SpaceX has been contracted to destroy the ISS and rescue the stranded astronauts." "...but.... not in that order, right?"

Space Motel 6 -- "We'll leave the lights & oxygen on."

"Or party supplies, if that's your jam." Woe is me, when some fool sneaks a party popper onboard, packed full of glitter! At which point everyone is immediately sent home, with the habitat prompt set for re-entry to burn up... Because as we all know, you will NEVER get rid of that glitter! 😅

I wonder if Starliner will still be docked when it happens

Scott, You should consider arranging a tour of the Axiom facilities in Houston. You have quite a few viewers there..

I like that idea of personal craft for the dragon to connect to for a vacation, a private suit in space.

This sounds a whole lot like the years leading up to the Shuttle retirement. 'There will be no gap in crew capability. Ares hardware is being built. Orion is being built. Constellation will be ready. We'll use off the shelf components to speed the process and keep cost low, etc...' 11 years later, we still would not have had crew capability had SpaceX not arrived.

The title reminded me of an old joke I heard from a Russian some years ago that went like this: TASS News Agency reports that the Mir station that reached the projected end of life was successfully deorbited and scuttled in the designated area of the Pacific Ocean. Currently our Cosmonauts... OH SHIT! COSMONAUTS!!!

I remember a "wet workshop" proposal from around Skylab years where the station would be within the propellant tanks of a booster upper stage. Now, take a Starship without flaps and heat shield, cram the payload section with what you need to retrofit a space station inside the tanks, then send a crew to do the retrofitting job and recover the Raptor engines, and voilà, with only 2 super-heavy launches, you aready have a huge space station...

Untitled Space Craft has done so many amazing missions for me. Some of them, it even survived!

I remember back in the 5th grade, our teacher turned the tv on so we could see John Glenn launch in the space shuttle. The oldest man in space. So far in '98, at least. They talked a bit about the new international space station. It's time to move on from 20th century tech. I'm excited to see what comes next.

Hearing that the ISS, a huge part of history, happening during my life, the symbol of peace and progress that I watched fly over my head for the last 10 years is going to be just destroyed makes me almost cry. Maybe because I have this deep desire to visit it at least once in my lifetime, even though it's completely impossible... I even had a dream yesterday, 55 years later after the Moon Landing, that I was on the ISS and my commander was sir Chris Hadfield. I was navigating the pretty tight sections, feeling "proper" weightlessness (usually flying in dreams feels super weird), and noticing how the air was ever so slightly heavy, stale. I wanted to go see the view from the Cupola before they sent me back to Earth (weird how I knew how it's called in my dream but now I was doubting myself about it). Kind of claustrophobic, feeling how there is "nothing" outside the walls. My heart is broken even more knowing I'll most possibly be unable to see the deorbit and reentry happen, unless I'll be rich enough to travel to that area, or something bad goes wrong. (hope not). I just wish that some day there will be a fulldive simulator which will make me able to go there in virtual reality. Unfortunately I am not a billionare, and my chronic health condition, while stable and mostly not noticeable, prohibits me from ever being an astronaut... I wish the best to all of you, and to the crews.

Can't they slowly replace the ISS with the jnflatable modules that they get a Space Station of Theseus?

Way back in the Apollo Applications Program, there was a proposal for a free-flying space telescope based on an Apollo lunar module chassis. It would have operated with Skylab. China is probably copying that idea for their free flying space telescope.

Forgive my pessimism but I doubt any of these will make it to orbit before budgets get cut and they get cancelled.

I heard NASA had a farm upstate 😉

I’m really hoping that they continue normal operations of ISS past 2030. It seems like ditching it would be a huge waste.

I live in Huntsville, AL where they recently “popped” one of Sierra Space’s inflatable modules. We’re used to rocket testing in this area but that explosion was another level.

Dragon? No ... TROGDOR!!!!!! TROGDOR!!!!!! Burninating the station!