But the first big test the incoming Biden administration will face in space could very well be the future of the space station. “We’re good from an engineering standpoint,” Joel Montalbano, NASA’s space station program manager, said in an interview. “What troubles me is this administration is walking out the door having done very little to prevent a space station gap,” he said. “The transition needs to be to commercial space stations. Axiom Space, a Houston-based company, is working toward building a commercial space station that would be a modern version of the ISS with some key upgrades.

Source: Washington Post December 23, 2020 11:01 UTC