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Published 12:19 4 Feb 2022 GMT
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The station will travel 227 miles to the surface of the planet at around 17,000 miles per hour/Via Getty[/caption]
While the ISS has stood as the pillar of interstellar exploration for decades, NASA has no plans to replace it.
Instead, the space agency is looking to work with commercial space ventures to house their astronauts during in-orbit endeavours. This will allegedly save $1.3bn in just the first year and it probably means we can all watch Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk fight it out.
Robyn Gatens, the director of the International Space Station at NASA headquarters, said they are looking to “lay the groundwork for a commercial future in low-Earth orbit.”
In a joint statement, Phil McAlister, the director of commercial space at NASA headquarters, also said: “We look forward to sharing our lessons learned and operations experience with the private sector to help them develop safe, reliable and cost-effective destinations in space.”
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The 356-foot wide space platform will be “de-orbited” and plunge into the South Pacific/Via Getty[/caption]
They added that the saved money would “be applied to NASA’s deep space exploration initiatives, allowing the agency to explore further and faster into deep space.”
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