Reckon it’s a rocket they strap onto the side of the station to push it back down to earth in a kinda controlled fashion. It’d cause a bit of damage if they landed it on a city.
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SpaceX will develop and NASA will take possession of the solution / vehicle/s.
Launching will be an additional cost.
There are so many questions that are not answered in that article or in other comms channels of NASA.
It won’t be starship.
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You would think they would shoot it into space, not into the planet, either way sounds dodgy
Fill it with everything from earth, and send it out there
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It will be pretty straight forward to de orbit imo. The calculations for orbital mechanics is well understood for it to land where they want it to.
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The ISS will definitely not fully burn up on re-entry.
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Long term manned space missions may be under threat due to biological problems caused by lack of gravity.
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Can we send it away from earth?
The Planets ?
The Sun
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Oh sorry 
Kinda surprised hasn’t Musk ordered a reusable shuttle and call it the X-Wing.
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No.
The ISS is in a fairly low orbit. To make it escape Earth’s pull would require a huge push and would still risk it swinging around and hitting us later. Best to nudge it down into the ocean.
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What about hooking a rope around the moon and leveraging the mechanical advantage of a good pulley?
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Samples returned from Osiris Rex asteroid consistent with the source being from an ocean world.
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Acme are the leading bidder for this contract. I believe it also involves a large anvil…
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Combining hubble and webb images to a 3D view of popular cosmological objects.
https://x.com/NASAWebb/status/1805965682389008867?t=sFbaVk8X-RviY_CrohHhbw&s=19
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Not quite the same, but teenager was binge watching YouTube the other day, and this was the sort of thing he was watching
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Good on him/her.
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