NASA Moving Toward A Post-ISS Commercial Space Station
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Credit: Axiom Space, NASA
The door to a private-sector economy in low Earth orbit (LEO) is opening a little wider on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA is formally seeking ideas that could lead to a “self-sustaining commercial marketplace” there, and preparing to fly at least one experimental manufacturing unit that...
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