The ISS has a tendency to fall back to Earth over time as it drags through the top of the atmosphere.

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The problem is that the rocket ships almost always disintegrate in the atmosphere on their ascent to the heavens and fall back to earth.

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Disney, which was flying high last week with Up and The Proposal, is expected to fall back to earth.

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That superhuman status set Armstrong up for the hardest kind of fall, and he has plummeted back to earth.

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