NASA: We're Leaving The Space Station To The Private Sector

In the 2020s, NASA wants private space travel companies to take over work in low-Earth orbit.

NASA just gave the private sector a heads-up: The International Space Station will soon have a vacancy. In a NASA advisory panel meeting last week, NASA chief of human spaceflight William Gerstenmaier essentially confirmed that the space agency is giving up its work in low-Earth orbit.

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