The International Space Station will open its doors to private astronauts and has expanded its commercial activities
Share to twitterThe Crew Dragon spacecraft does an uncrewed test flight at the International Space Station in February 2019.Up to two private astronauts could join professional crews on the International Space Station each year under a set of expanded commerce activities slated to begin as soon as 2020.
These astronauts would fly to the space station aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon or Boeing CST-100 spacecraft, which are commercial crew vehicles that are yet untested with astronauts in space. Both companies are expected to run human test flights later this year, NASA confirmed in the press conference. NASA is once again opening up slots for private astronauts to help industry with the future of space once the ISS completes its orbital lifetime. The current agreement between the partners calls for ISS operations until 2024, although some industry insiders have speculated an extension to 2028 is possible.
To be sure, U.S. commercial activities are already taking place on the ISS through the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space , which manages commercial experiments through the U.S. National Laboratory under a 10-year agreement signed with NASA in 2011. But the activities include restrictions on items such as marketing and for-profit work, and focus mostly on research. Other parts of the new ISS vision would open up commercial activities to a greater degree.
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