The following article by Christian Davenport was posted on the Washington Post website February 11, 2018:
The White House wants to turn the International Space Station into a commercially run venture after 2024, according to an internal NASA document. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)
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.
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. Continue reading “The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a commercially run venture, NASA document shows”