The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) will allow unprecedented commercial access to the International Space Station (ISS) for marketing, business and space tourism, the agency announced on Friday. Until now, the space station has only been used for research and development. Eventually, Nasa hopes the space station will be just one of several “commercial and free-flying habitable destinations in low-Earth orbit”. For now, Nasa is making one space station port available for commercial uses “for a finite period of time”. A photo provided by Nasa shows American astronaut Scott Kelly’s personal living quarters on the International Space Station.

Source: The Irish Times June 08, 2019 08:03 UTC