NASA Is Going To “Move Out” Of The International Space Station - A big question mark hangs over the fate of the International Space Station,
a collective effort between space agencies of countries like United
States, Russia, Canada, Japan and others. NASA has not yet confirmed if
it’s going to fund the current one beyond 2024 let alone say that it’s
going to participate in efforts to build a new one. The agency has given
its biggest hint yet that makes it clear that NASA doesn’t seem to be
too interested in a new ISS.
According to a report William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, confirmed
during a meeting with the agency’s advisory panel that the new goal is
to bring humans to the moon’s orbit that’s also known as the cislunar
space.
As far as the ISS is concerned, “NASA’s vision is we’re trying to move out,” regardless of whether private space companies
step up to fill the gap or not. To pursue it’s goal of setting up shop
in cislunar space the agency will have to leave low Earth orbit behind
because it can’t fund both projects.
Private space companies have already been helping out by flying resupply missions to the ISS, Elon Musk’s SpaceX will also be flying a crewed mission,
but it remains to be seen if these companies would like to spend their
money to fund a new International Space Station, an effort that could
require billions and billions of dollars in funds. Source: Ubergizmo
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