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MOSCOW — Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the Russian space agency, said Wednesday that once the mammoth international space station is no longer needed, it will be sent into the Pacific Ocean.
It’s a plan that’s long been in the works and is a step to avoid having the station become dangerous space junk. It was supposed to plunge into the ocean as early as 2015. The U.S. recently extended its life until at least 2020, and there’s been talk of keeping it going even longer.
Russia sank its Mir space station in the Pacific in 2001 after 15 years in operation. Skylab, America’s first space station, fell from orbit in 1979 after six years in space.
