NASA, Industry Partners Prepping Commercial Space Station Strategy

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Mark Carreau
February 26, 2026

A digital rendering of the Starlab, which includes a large habitation and laboratory module with a smaller service module for power and propulsion.

Credit: Starlab

HOUSTON—NASA is expected to soon disclose the next steps in its evolving strategy to develop commercial low Earth orbit successors to the International Space Station (ISS), the agency’s retiring Space Operations Mission Directorate associate administrator says. Ken Bowersox made the disclosure at…

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America’s space program through news reporting.

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