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Watch live as NASA holds briefings at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on the upcoming Crew 9 mission and SpaceX rolls out a Falcon 9 as it prepares to return to flight with its workhorse rocket.
![NASA plans for space station’s demise with new SpaceX ‘Deorbit Vehicle’](http://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240718_ISS_Deorbit_Vehicle_render.jpg)
The ISS Deorbit Vehicle, or DV, will be a custom-built, one-of-a-kind spacecraft needed to make sure the space station re-enters the atmosphere at the precise place and in the proper orientation to insure any wreckage that survives the 3,000-degree heat of re-entry will crash harmlessly into the sea.