NASA wants to sell ISS space station in the next 10 years

Due to the current financial difficulties and research objectives mainly on Mars and further planets, NASA is planning to find partners to sell ISS (International Space Station). .

ISS began to be built in 2000 and has spent more than 16 years living in a harsh environment in orbit.

According to TheVerge, in a recent press conference, Bill Hill, NASA's deputy manager of the exploration system development, mentioned that the agency is looking for a private company to be able to sell the space station. International ISS. Mr. Hill said: "Our desire is to transfer space stations to a commercially capable or commercial organization that still allows NASA to continue research in the low Earth orbit of the Earth. We Hopefully this will happen in about 10 years. "

The deadline for Mr. Hill to coincide with the Obama administration's plan is to extend the commitment of the international space station to at least 2024. It is known that ISS began to be built. since 2000 and has spent more than 16 years living in a harsh environment in orbit. However, the ISS theory period is only 15 years and the main contractor, Boeing, is working on a feasibility study to double the life of the space station.

With private companies in the space industry like SpaceX emerging as well as reducing government funding, reselling to trading partners is necessary for ISS to remain operational. However, because the maintenance cost of a space station is very large and involves many parties, it is not clear how the transfer will be arranged or who will be able to afford. In addition, the fate of ISS will also depend on its role in NASA's future interplanetary expedition mission.