:Theres plenty of reasons why it won't come down in 2015 or in the foreseeable future, it's a pittance for the Russians to keep it up there, if NASA wants it down, that's just tough, they can't do squat to bring it down, JAXA won't want to see their KIBO incinerated so soon if at all, and their flush with cash, RKA has made no indicative moves on OPSEK, the only possible telling thing is the MLM hasn't been launched yet. NASA is the only one who wants it down, but there's nothing they can do except pay someone else to do so. So their lack of funding can't kill the station, because funding is what is needed to kill the station. The only thing you can say for sure is the next US president will overturn the US space program yet again, bring any program in progress back to the starting point. The reality of their future is as space tourists and little if anything else. There is private enterprise, however private enterprise is simply not capable of running a space program, it's a governments domain. "No plan exists to deorbit the ISS in the forseeable future, no spacecraft capable of doing the job has been approved or is being constructed" you can quote your friend penyulap on that one. But I don't meet wiki standards unless I publish, and I can't be bothered, lol.