Post-ISS Station Plan Unsustainable, NASA Says

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ISS program manager Dana Weigel discusses a plan for NASA to procure a new module that would attach to the ISS and then separate to become the core of a new outpost with commercial partners.

Credit: Irene Klotz/Aviation Week
NASA is proposing an alternative approach for a station in low Earth orbit to follow the International Space Station (ISS) due to technical, budget and other obstacles facing prospective commercial providers. The current budget of about $250 million per year is inadequate to fund even one aspiring...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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