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Report Copyright Violation | ISS Inc: Trump plans to privatize space station in 2024 - reports The Trump administration is reportedly planning to privatize the International Space Station (ISS).
According to a NASA document seen by the Washington Post the administration wants to handover some of the space station’s operations to private industry after 2024. The news follows reports last month that the US government is keen to cease funding the habitable satellite in order to save around $4 billion a year.
The NASA document states that while the US does not want to pull the plug on the venture entirely, it is looking to hand “certain elements or capabilities” over to the private sector.
“The decision to end direct federal support for the ISS in 2025 does not imply that the platform itself will be deorbited at that time – it is possible that industry could continue to operate certain elements or capabilities of the ISS as part of a future commercial platform,” the document reads. [ link to www.rt.com (secure)] So long as those private sector companies are kept an eye on as to their intentions... |
