Time is running out for the long-serving International Space Station, which is booked to make a final splash in our neighbourhood in ten years' time.
NASA has decided that the internationally sponsored piece of space infrastructure, which has been in orbit since 2000, will make take a final dive in 2032, plunging into the Pacific Ocean 4,800 kilometres away from Gisborne.
Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Xerra Earth Observation Institute in New Zealand, says the station's work to date has been a "wonderful thing in many ways".
He spoke to Susie Ferguson.
