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NASA is working on a plan to replace its space station, but time is running out


Over the next several months, NASA will finalize a strategy for its operations in low-Earth orbit after 2030. Then, toward the end of next year, the space agency will award contracts to one or more private companies to develop small space stations for which NASA and other space agencies will become customers, rather than operators. But none of this is certain, and as NASA faces a transition from its long-established operations on the International Space Station.

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