NASA is opening up the ISS for more business, laying out plans at the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is opening the International Space Station (ISS) for more business, laying out its plan to do so at the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday.
Companies will be allowed to bid for new activities on the ISS, as NASA unveiled a new directive to „enable commercial manufacturing and production and allow both NASA and private astronauts to conduct new commercial activities aboard the orbiting laboratory,“ the agency said in a press release.
NASA is also opening up the ISS for „private astronaut missions of up to 30 days,“ it said, „with the first mission as early as 2020.
