What Will Replace The International Space Station?

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The ISS is set to be decommissioned in 2030. Several companies are competing for NASA contracts to build commercial space stations.

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0:00.0	Listener supported WNYC Studios.
0:11.2	This is Science Friday.
0:13.3	I'm Ira Plato, here with Flora Lichten.
0:16.1	Today on the podcast, why is the International Space Station getting retired and what will replace it?
0:23.8	Just as our various technologies age and start to have issues here on Earth, the International
0:29.3	Space Station has also started to show its age over time.
0:34.7	I've got good news and bad news for your space fans.
0:38.2	Which do you want to hear first?
0:40.3	How about the good?
0:41.9	How about the bad?
0:42.7	The bad?
0:43.2	Okay.
0:43.6	NASA's planning to decommission the International Space Station in, what, 2030,
0:49.3	which will make it 30 years after it began operations in 2000.
0:53.7	Okay.
0:53.9	Now for some possible good news, the space agency has been anticipated 30 years after it began operations in 2000. Okay.
0:59.5	Now for some possible good news, the space agency's been anticipating this retirement for quite a while, and it's turning to private companies.
1:03.5	Why are we not surprised to build future space station?
1:07.0	So who's in the running?
1:08.7	How could next-gen space stations be different from the one we know today?
1:13.6	It helped bring us up to speed is Lauren Grush, space reporter at Bloomberg News.
1:19.2	He joins us from the studios of member station KUD, KUT, of course, in Austin, Texas.
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