"The International Space Station is slated to be retired just four years from now. In fact, "retired" confers an aura of decorum that may not be warranted; the plan is to nudge it out of its orbit with the help of a modified SpaceX spacecraft until it unceremoniously plunges into the Pacific Ocean, after facilitating decades of cutting-edge space science."
"With five cargo and three crew spacecraft currently docked, there are ten people currently residing on board the space station. The record number of crew members at one time on board the ISS was 13, set in July 2009 after the Space Shuttle Endeavor docked, delivering six astronauts at one time. However, the station will soon clear up one of its dock ports."
The International Space Station currently hosts eight docked spacecraft simultaneously, occupying all eight docking ports for the first time in its history. Docked vehicles include two SpaceX Dragons (one crew, one cargo), Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL, Japan’s HTV-X1, two Roscosmos Soyuz crew ships, and two Progress cargo vehicles. Canadarm2 temporarily removed Cygnus XL to enable Soyuz MS-28 arrival and later reattached the cargo craft to achieve the milestone. Ten people currently reside aboard the station. Soyuz MS-27 will undock December 8 returning three crew, and NASA/SpaceX Crew-11 will return four crewmembers next year. The station is scheduled for retirement in four years.
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