“WE WILL SEE IDEAS AND PRODUCTS WE CAN’T IMAGINE TODAY”
Jan 27, 2022
4 minutes
Interviewed by Mike Wall
BIO
Matt Ondler
Private companies are getting ready to take the baton from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA is awarding $415 million (£306 million) to help get three commercial outposts off the ground. Those stations are being developed by teams led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman. In 2020, Houston-based Axiom Space got a NASA contract to deliver at least one habitable private module to the ISS. Axiom plans to launch its first element to the orbiting lab in late 2024, then send several more up over the next few years. Eventually, the connected Axiom modules will detach from the ISS. Axiom’s chief technology
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