> NASA is selling the retirement as a “transition of operations to commercial services,” reiterating its emphasis on supporting private-public endeavors in Eart

> NASA is selling the retirement as a “transition of operations to commercial services,” reiterating its emphasis on supporting private-public endeavors in Earth’s orbit. > It’ll be the sad end to one of the biggest international scientific cooperatives ever undertaken and may well mark the decline of the multi-nation approach to space research and exploration. In a way... what happened to the internet, the privatization and commercialization, is going to happen to space. I don't know if I should like that.