New NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that "we’re in a position now where there are people out there that can do commercial management of the International Space Station." (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)NASA is talking to several international companies about forming a consortium that would take over operation of the International Space Station and run it as a commercial space lab, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in an interview. “We’re in a position now where there are people out there that can do commercial management of the International Space Station,” Bridenstine said in his first extensive interview since being sworn in as NASA administrator in April. In unveiling its plan to commercialize the station earlier this year, the White House offered few details of how exactly it would work. It helps expand the partnership that we've seen in low Earth orbit with the International Space Station.”But the first element of the system wouldn’t be launched until 2021 or 2022, he said.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2018 10:52 UTC