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ISS Orbiting Without Burning Up

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How does the International Space Station orbit Earth without burning up?

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The International Space Station travels very quickly around the Earth at 5 miles per second ( 8 kilometers per second ), which means it could fly from Atlanta to London in 14 minutes .

But at the same time, small chunks of rock called meteoroids shoot through space and burn up when they hit Earth ’s atmosphere.

The ISS doesn’t experience the same kind of interactions with atmospheric particles, nor the high pressure and heat that meteoroids traveling closer to Earth do so it doesn't burn up.

NASA plans to keep the ISS active until 2030 , when all of the astronauts will return to Earth .

The ISS will be deorbited, or brought down from orbit by a specially designed spacecraft.

Some spacecraft, such as the crew capsules that bring astronauts to and from the ISS , can survive reentry into the atmosphere using their heat shield.

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