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NASA eye s a possible ISS extension for astronaut missions

he International Space Station (ISS) might keep flying past 2030. A senior NASA official said that there is “no big concern” about the health of the ISS that would require an operational stop six years from now, when the current agreement expires between most of the ISS partners. “There’s nothing magical that happens in 2030,” Steve Stich, the manager of the Commercial Crew Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC)

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