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

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 24, 2015 @12:15AM from the picking-up-the-bill dept.

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.

2 of 211 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Answer by Digital+Mage · 2015-09-24 00:55 · Score: 4, Informative

Who Will Pay For a Commercial Space Station After the End of the ISS?
China
Re:"need"? "benefits"? by Mantrid42 · 2015-09-24 02:46 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually, with a $100 billion dollar price tag, and 122 million federal income tax payers, you've probably paid closer to $819.67. That's a pretty good deal for 17 years of space station.