Credit: Axiom SpaceAxiom Space, a Houston-based commercial space startup, will build the world’s first, privately-funded commercial space station --- an incredibly economical, for-profit $1.5 billion replacement for the $100 billion International Space Station (ISS) which ceases operation in 2024. This, he says, would allow the Axiom station to provide bio-researchers with new insights into treatments related to allergic and inflammatory reactions, as well as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. That’s an area in which the Axiom station should help, says Blachman. Construction of the Axiom station is due to be finished by 2024 , the same year the ISS will be decommissioned. The Axiom station will then separate from the existing station and begin what could be a 30-year tenure at an average Earth-orbiting altitude of 250 miles.

Source: Forbes April 11, 2017 23:19 UTC