 I'm Nicole Murray with your Money Now. NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk's SpaceX guide the International Space Station's destruction later this decade. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded an $843 million contract to SpaceX to build the so-called U.S. de-orbit vehicle. The spacecraft will be designed to guide the football field-sized research laboratory back into the Earth's atmosphere after retiring in 2030.