Russia Wants to Dump Space Station in Ocean

An anonymous reader writes: Once the International Space Station has finished its celestial journey, it will head to a new great unexplored region: the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

A similar fate awaited Mir, the predecessor space station to the current one, which was committed to its watery grave in 2001 after spending 15 years in space. Essentially, Russia and its partners are trying to avoid littering. Space waste is becoming an increasingly visible problem, with a stray piece of debris narrowly missing the space station last month.