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I think that last bit of the article is really worth pointing out. They spent a decade and $100 billion building the International Space Station. And so far, they've spent what $1.6 billion on commercial space station stuff? Thats 1.6%. Clearly, that is not enough. But even if they went up by like 5x, that would still only be 8 billion or 8% of ISS.
What is "commercial space station stuff"?
Giving private companies the funding they need to launch their own space station and then becoming a commercial customer of said space station.
Is that happening?
As far as I understand, yeah.
So I gathered this much from your original comment. Now we’re at the point of what I’m asking: details?
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14053060