12-02-2018 03:45 via chron.com

Trump administration seeks to privatize ISS

WASHINGTON - 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 for 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 docume
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