The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies. The station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics, and other fields.[1]
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The International Space Station is featured in The Bodies Left Behind.
While human DNA on Earth didn't survive one month after people, 200 miles above Earth within the International Space Station, it housed a computer disk called the Immortality Drive. It was delivered into orbit in October 2008 and contains digitalized DNA information of highly eclectic group. It is now the last hope for preserving the human species within the International Space Station.
Its fate is revealed in 3 years after people. While the International Space Station still orbits above Earth, it loses 2 miles of altitude each month due to without people to constant re-calibration from terrestrial stations or boosts from space shuttles. When it drops from its original height of 200 miles to below 160 miles, the orbital decline accelerates until it re-enters the atmosphere. The air and friction meets the gravity causing the International Space Station to burn up and incinerated in the descent before crashing into the nearby city of Houston. The station with the Immortality Drive is destroyed in the explosion and proves to be mortal.
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- Houston is shown to be the city where the International Space Station would shown to crash.
- The chance of the ISS hitting Houston is around 1/10,000 chances: 0.01%, considering there are around 10,000 cities in the world. And if talking about land area, it would be 1 in a 510.1 million chances per square kilometer.
- Ironically, the city of Houston is known as the "world capital of space exploration".
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