Station Succession

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Recorded on December 14, 2021.
NASA has long said it wants a privately-owned and operated space station to succeed the ISS, and we’ve seen some moves in that direction. But this year, the commercial orbital space station race really ramped up, and NanoRacks co-founder and President of Voyager Space Jeffery Manber is the ideal person to hear about it from.

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