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The end of the ISS will usher in a more commercialized future in space
What happens when private interests take over?
“With the recent presidential election, I assume going to Mars and possibly the Moon will be a priority for NASA in the new administration,” said Roger Handberg, political science professor and space policy expert from the University of Central Florida. SpaceX has achieved great things with its reusable rockets, but Musk has a history of laying out grandiose and utterly unrealistic timelines for larger space projects — as does Trump — and has shown his willingness to fly in the face of government agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration. The hope is that NASA will use its limited budget to continue to fund this kind of research, but the worry is that as costs get trimmed with a focus on human exploration of the Moon and Mars, work that doesn’t have an obvious and immediate practical application will fall by the wayside.
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