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NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station

posted by martyb on Monday August 22 2016, @10:09AM   
from the Privatized-International-Space-Station-==-PISS? dept.

takyon writes:

NASA may sell/lease parts of the International Space Station in the next decade:

NASA has signalled its intention to offload the International Space Station (ISS) some time in the 2020s. News of the sale appeared in the video below, at about the 14:15 mark [YouTube] when Bill Hill, NASA's deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development, ponders the ISS' role in future missions.

"Ultimately our desire is to hand the space station to either a commercial entity or some other commercial capability so that research can continue in low-Earth orbit. We figure that will be around the mid-20s."

Hill and the other speakers in the video explain how NASA is preparing for a crewed Mars mission and outline how the agency is now well and truly in the market for ideas about how to get it done.

Also at SpaceFlight Insider and TechCrunch.

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• Re:NASA owns the space station?Re:NASA owns the space station? (Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Monday August 22 2016, @12:32PM

  by isostatic (365) on Monday August 22 2016, @12:32PM (#391588) Journal

  What good is a space station when you can't actually get to it?

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• Re:NASA owns the space station?(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday August 22 2016, @12:56PM

  by turgid (4318) on Monday August 22 2016, @12:56PM (#391596) Journal

  The Great Prophet Musk I'd about to fix that Real Soon Now(TM).

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  I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].

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