The International Space Station is slated to be retired just four years from now.

In fact, “retired” confers an aura of decorum that may not be warranted; the plan is to nudge it out of its orbit with the help of a modified SpaceX spacecraft until it unceremoniously plunges into the Pacific Ocean, after facilitating decades of cutting-edge space science.

But it’s not being decommissioned just yet. In fact, the ISS is incredibly busy right now, hosting a record number of eight spacecraft docked at all eight of its ports for the first time in its history, as NASA boasted in a new blog post.

In total, there are currently two SpaceX Dragon spacecraft (one crew and one cargo), Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft, Japan’s cargo spacecraft HTV-X1, which completed its maiden flight to

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