The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry.I actually agree with move.
The White House plans to stop funding the station after 2024, ending direct federal support of the orbiting laboratory. But it does not intend to abandon the orbiting laboratory altogether and is working on a transition plan that could turn the station over to the private sector, according to an internal NASA document obtained by The Washington Post.
In scientific terms, the ISS is complete pants. It has consumed massive resources for next to no scientific value.
Of course, there really isn't a commercial justification for this either: Anything that you want to set up tto take advantage of micro-gravity would be cheaper to do without people.
It's basically a white elephant.
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