Trump administration considering privatizing International Space Station

Documents show a plan to cease funding for the orbiting lab by 2024 and pitches running ISS 'as part of a future commercial platform'

The Trump administration is considering turning the International Space Station over to private enterprise, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Post, and ceasing to fund the orbiting lab by 2024.

While the plan doesn't not recommend "deorbiting" the 1990s-vintage space station, which is currently contracted to Boeing and costs Nasa more than $3bn a year, the Nasa documents say "it is possible that industry could continue to operate certain elements or capabilities of the ISS as part of a future commercial platform".