{"id":216525,"date":"2021-09-21T10:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=216525"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T08:33:13","slug":"nasa-to-turn-the-iss-into-a-private-destination-for-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/nasa-to-turn-the-iss-into-a-private-destination-for-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to turn the ISS into a private destination for travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NASA is planning to phase out the International Space Station by the end of the decade. In its place, it intends to install a private destination for future travelers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-216516 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/highxtar-nasa-international-space-station-private-travelling-destination-1.jpg\" alt=\"Estaci\u00f3n Espacial Internacional\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/highxtar-nasa-international-space-station-private-travelling-destination-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/highxtar-nasa-international-space-station-private-travelling-destination-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/highxtar-nasa-international-space-station-private-travelling-destination-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/highxtar-nasa-international-space-station-private-travelling-destination-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/highxtar-nasa-international-space-station-private-travelling-destination-1-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/highxtar-nasa-international-space-station-private-travelling-destination-1-508x339.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to CNBC, <strong>NASA<\/strong> is collaborating with a number of companies to achieve this goal: to turn the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanasa.net\/iss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ISS<\/strong><\/a> into a<strong> private space station<\/strong> that will save them more than a billion dollars a year. The ISS, which is more than two decades old, costs $4 billion a year to maintain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil McAlister<\/strong>, NASA&#8217;s director of commercial spaceflight, has confirmed that the agency has already received a dozen proposals from different companies. Some of them will be contracted for this ambitious<strong> commercial project<\/strong> where people can work and live.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, NASA revealed that the <strong>Commercial LEO Destinations<\/strong> project plans to invest up to $400 million in total contracts to begin developing the private space station. For its part, the <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/nasa-is-planning-to-visit-the-dark-side-of-the-moon\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>space agency<\/strong><\/a> expects to have the winning contract selected by the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is planning to turn the International Space Station into a private destination for future travellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2108],"tags":[616,948],"class_list":["post-216525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-laura-perez-en","tag-nasa-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NASA to turn the ISS into a private destination for travelers - 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