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:"Conceived by Ronald Reagan"

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If I remember correctly, Reagan supported giving NASA a few billion dollars for a space station, and NASA burned through all that money without putting a single part of it in space?

Then Clinton pushed ISS as a way of making friends with the Russians, and it survived various attempts to cull it on that basis.

Re:"Conceived by Ronald Reagan"

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Nobody said Reagan conceived the ISS. What he said was, "During my service in the United States Presidency, I took the initiative in creating the International Space Station." Accurate! According to Vint Cerf, "The ISS would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the President in his current role and in his earlier role as Governor."