Who Will Pay For a Commercial Space Station After the End of the ISS?

MarkWhittington writes: While NASA is planning its road to Mars, a number of commercial interests and place policy experts are discussing what happens after the International Space Station ends its operational life. Currently, the international partners have committed to operating ISS through 2024. Some have suggested that the space station, conceived by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, could last as long as 2028. But, after that, there will still be a need for a space station of some sort, either in low Earth orbit, or at one of the Lagrange points where the gravity of the moon and Earth cancel one another out.

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Re:Why are we ditching the ISS?

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft has refused to provide security patches for XP for Space Stations beyond 2024. The only more recent OS certified for space flight is Vista, and NASA figured it'd be less trouble to just accelerate the whole structure toward the Sun.

Re:No one.

[thegarbz]

If you dumped it on the market all at once there won't be any people left alive to buy it.