Trump Wants to Privatize the International Space Station

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Donald Trump's administration reportedly wants to end support for the International Space Station after 2024 and then take the orbiting lab private. An excerpt from a document explaining the move says, "It is possible that industry could continue to operate certain elements or capabilities of the ISS as part of a future commercial platform. The space station, a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit, has been circling the planet for two decades.