Ariel Ekblaw

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

I think there's a lot of orbital dynamics planning and reentry drag engineering planning.

Yeah, whether they burn up completely on reentry, whether they fully incinerate, or whether, for the case of the ISS, probably parts of it will end up being intentionally plopped in the ocean or somewhere if it's not fully burning up on reentry.

This is a very trenchant example because the Chinese did get in some trouble for Tiangong, one of their earliest space stations, for not deorbiting it properly.

So there's a lot of eyes on NASA.

I believe in NASA fully at the ability to do this, but there's a lot of eyes on NASA to make sure they do it well, do it safely.

You got problems, yeah.

Just don't hit Point Nemo, right?

Because on Point Nemo, the crazy thing.

What's Point Nemo?

Point Nemo is the most remote place on Earth.

If only.

then we'd know where he was.

That was good.

Point Nemo is the most remote place on Earth.

So if you're in Point Nemo, you're farther away from any other human, any other landmass, except when the International Space Station flies over, then you're only 250 miles away from a human.

So when it goes over Point Nemo, you're closer to space humans than you are to Earth humans.

Yes.

I suspect that there will be part of the ConOps concept of operations is they're going to pluck some of the different modules apart, rather than just trying to have the entire kind of unwieldy structure with all those solar panels, all those radiators.

Let the damn thing burn up.

Yeah.

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