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It would be extremely cool to have the the real iss a museum if it's at all possible
Would definitely be cheaper to just build a 1:1 recreation on earth and skip the logistical nightmare of safely deorbiting something so big.
I'd be fine with a VR recreation.
there is a "mission: iss" on quest
Cool.
The biggest roadblock for that happening is the gigantic expense it would require to send astronauts in rockets up to dismantle the entire station and then return the pieces back down using methods that reduce damage to the pieces as much as possible. Offhand guess would be $500 billion.
Just ship the tourists up to the ISS. Probably cheaper
NASA could AirBnB it and finance space exploration that way. Genius.
They already do this. https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-nasa-is-renting-the-international-space-station-for-dirt-cheap/
The biggest roadblock would be agreeing who pays for it and where it will be located.
Earth, and Earth.
Ok, in a few years, charter a boat out to the deorbit impact site, out in the Pacific, and you just try and catch whats left of the ISS after burning through the atmosphere at...what, Mach 30, something like that?
It really would! I've seen countless videos of the ISS but to actually step inside it is something else