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NASA is collaborating with multiple companies to develop new space stations to replace the International Space Station before its planned de-orbit in 2031.

is working with at least three companies that are designing space stations to replace the International Space Station before it de-orbits in 2031. '

If you don't do research, and you don't do development, R and D, then you are consuming or eating your seed corn, and you don't have what you need to plant a crop to supply whatever you want for the future. It's the R and D that has brought us to the level of the degree of sophistication that we enjoy,' Nelson said. Axiom Space is one company that is building a next generation space station.

astronaut that we approve,' said Nelson. When the International Space Station is decommissioned, Axiom Station will detach and become a self-sustaining orbital platform.

 

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