International Space Station program with on-orbit refurbishment in mind. According to the Outer Space Treaty the United States is legally responsible for all modules it has launched. In ISS planning, NASA examined options including returning the station to Earth via shuttle missions (deemed too expensive, as the station(USOS) is not designed for disassembly and this would require at least 27 shuttle missions), natural orbital decay with random reentry similar to Skylab, boosting the station to a higher altitude (which would simply delay reentry) and a controlled targeted de-orbit to a remote ocean area. The technical feasibility of a controlled targeted deorbit into a remote
Earth Orbit Stations Earth Orbit Stations E.O.S.: Earth Orbit Stations is a space station management simulation game developed by Karl Buiter, with Joe Ybarra as producer, for Electronic Arts. It was released for the Commodore 64 and Apple II in 1987. The game focuses on both the material and economic challenges of building a permanent, fully functioning space station in geocentric orbit. The game was set in 1996, and the player is given various selected scenarios to fulfill, from mundane tasks such as setting up a simple space station to developing and supplying a specified amount of high-grade, zero G pharmaceuticals to being