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NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station

Accepted submission by takyon at 2016-08-22 02:29:01
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NASA may sell/lease parts of the International Space Station [theregister.co.uk] 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 [youtu.be]] 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 [spaceflightinsider.com] and TechCrunch [techcrunch.com].

Related: Russia to Build New Space Station with NASA after ISS [soylentnews.org]
Russia Investigates Downsizing Space Station Crew From Three to Two [soylentnews.org]


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