Sentences with phrase «planned private space station»
Are you worried about competitors like Bigelow Aerospace, which is already using the ISS to test technology for their planned private space station?
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Marty Skahen, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney's chief of staff, said the county has no plans to evict the city from the office and only wants the city to pay half the rent for the space it leases from Washington Station's private owners.
Headed by billionaire Robert Bigelow, the company plans to operate private, inflatable space stations and has orbited a couple of scaled - down prototypes already.
The agency plans to start sending astronauts to the International Space Station on private flights by 2015.
But SpaceX, a private company whose Falcon rockets now resupply the International Space Station, recently announced ambitious plans to make that happen.
Instead, the new plan would put billions towards helping private companies develop their own rockets and spacecraft, which could then serve as taxis to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.