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ISS with multiple possibilities. One is the NASA buildout of a space station and not depending on

just one company to build it. Bob here explains. Sean Duffy is the

temporary or perhaps permanent head of administrator of NASA now, and this is the Trump administration's

vision of the future using commercial space in all of its glory, as opposed to the Biden administration, which was much more

command economy. Here's Bob to explain what we know so far about the replacement of ISS.

Much more of this tonight.

All right. So this has to do with the space stations that, the American space stations that will

replace ISS, hopefully by the end of this decade when ISS So this has to do with the space stations that, the American space stations that will replace

ISS, hopefully by the end of this decade when ISS is hopefully retired, last that long.

VAST is one of those four companies consortiums that are competing to do this.

And the story here has to do with NASA and VAS's position on NASA. NASA recently announced

it is changing its strategy for replacing ISS. Previously, under the Biden administration,

the plan had been to reward a large space station contract to one, maybe, but not likely, of these competing companies, to build a major station and to do it with a goal of having immediate continuous human occupation so that we continue to have people in space at all times, even when ISS goes.

And the Trump administration changed that.

Sean Duffy, interim head of NASA, said, nope, we're not going to do that anymore.

We're not going to force these new consortiums to have continuous occupation right off the

back because they're not going to be prepared to do that.

It's going to be very difficult.

Let's get them up, ramp up to that over time which is a sensible approach

he also said we don't know if a single big contract

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