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There was no mention of America’s involvement in the International Space Station, and the proposal called for NASA to sell shares of ISS by 2025. The plan to defund the space station was incorporated when former US President Donald Trump introduced the budget proposal on February 11, last year. “ISS is an amazing system, but unfortunately it won't last forever,” Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at NASA headquarters told the media. And we hope it will be followed by commercial stations,' Nelson said during a. 'We expect to expand the space station as a government project all the way to 2030. NASA is planning to develop new commercial space stations for future low Earth orbit missions (LEO), reports suggest. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on August 25 at the 36th Space Symposium that the space station is assuredly retiring in 2024 but he still expects the orbiting lab to last to 2030. However, NASA is expected to support a new generation of space stations by private entities after International Space Station (ISS) retires. Construction of the ISS began in 1998 and is a joint venture between. The ISS is the ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and later Russian Salyut, Almaz, and Mir stations and the American Skylab. Angela Hart, manager of the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Program Office at NASA told the reporters that the International Space Station (ISS) has been approved to operate only through December 2024, post which the agreements struck by NASA with its international partners end. Nasa has won White House backing to extend the life of the International Space Station for a further four years, until 2024. But now, ISS will soon be retired with no replacement from the space agency. Since then it has hosted astronauts on space missions from over 19 countries. NASA made 42 launches to get the gigantic orbiting laboratory International Space Station (ISS) in space in 1998.