Axiom Aims To Build World's First Commercial Space Station

Axiom Space, a Houston-based commercial space startup, will build the world’s first, privately-funded commercial space station --- an incredibly economical, for-profit $1.5 billion replacement for the $100 billion International Space Station (ISS) which ceases operation in 2024. The plan is for Axiom to initially hitch a module to the ISS before becoming a stand-alone station itself that will play host to a seven member crew of both professional astronauts, researchers and space tourists as well as manufacturing and research entities. Axiom hopes to reduce the existing ISS’ massive construction costs by using as much off the shelf, plug and play space architecture and equipment as possible. More

(Source: Forbes - Apr 13)