The International Space Station is getting a commercial module

[Admin]

NASA has picked Houston-based company Axiom Space to build at least one habitable private module that will be attached to the orbiting lab, the space agency announced Monday (Jan. 27).

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[Admiral Lagrange]

With the module not being built yet and House bill HR666 only extending the ISS to 2028, a 7 year contract may be a little presumptuous. Politics have derailed many NASA projects.

 

[T.T.Maxx]

With the module not being built yet and House bill HR666 only extending the ISS to 2028, a 7 year contract may be a little presumptuous. Politics have derailed many NASA projects.

Yes but who would they use to ferry customers?

 

[sarajoanne]

amazing I presume people who are doing tours to see it would ferry customers -I dont know -just me clutching at straws

 

[Anonymous010]

"It is a similar partnership that this year will return the capability of American astronauts to launch to the space station on American rockets from American soil."

Because that's worked out so well for us, right? We've spent the last decade feeding and babysitting private companies while they try to get a launch vehicle that can carry astronauts to the ISS, and we still don't have one from any of them. What's more, we don't have any guarantees that these companies will always charge less than Russia does.

Private companies are not helping us advance our goals in space - if anything, they've been holding us back.