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Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest has nearly cut all its exposure in Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) and now owns just100 shares in the Chicago-based planemaker, data from the popular money managers daily trades reveal.

The St. Petersburg, Florida-based Ark Invest bought shares in the maker of 737 MAX commercial planes in April this year via the then newly launched Ark Space Exploration & Innovation ETF (BATS: ARKX).

No other Ark Invest ETFs own shares in Boeing.

ARKX owned 74,056 shares in Boeing at the end of July this year, as per the investment firms annual report.

Ark Invest in September sharply reduced its exposure in Boeing after the planemaker failed to secure a large order from European budget airline Ryanair Holdings Plc (NASDAQ: RYAAY) due to differences over pricing.

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The beleaguered 737 MAX after two years of a global banwas cleared to fly again by most aviation regulators of countries around the world.

The worlds second-largest planemaker was earlier among the top 15 holdings in the ARKX portfolio, which currently counts Trimble Inc (NASDAQ: TRMB) and The 3D Printing ETF (BATS: PRNT) among its top holdings.

Boeing's Defense, Space, and Security segment is also involved in NASA's Space Launch System, a heavy-lift rocket meant for human space exploration. Boeing, which draws most of its sales from making planes, also builds satellites and software systems for commercial, military, and scientific exploration.

Boeings Space Launch System project has however been mired in delays.

Just last week, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musks SpaceX secured fresh commercial crew flights to the International Space Station as Boeing further delayed certificates for the Starliner spacecraft due to technical issues.

Boeing may now not be able to fly astronauts for NASA until 2023 more than three years behind schedule. The Starliner spaceship is already grounded for the rest of the year due to hardware issues.

See Also: NASA Signs Up SpaceX For 3 More Commercial Flights To ISS Amid Boeing's Starliner Delays

NASA said it still plans to alternate missions between SpaceX and Boeing, once both are operational.

Price Action: Boeing shares closed 0.96% lower at $195.50 a share on Tuesday. The stock is down 16% over the past month.

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A new executive director has taken over at the helm of Space Park Leicester.

Prof Richard Ambrosi has joined the new 100 million complex on the outskirts of Leicester which was recently opened by the University of Leicester to drive collaboration between the private sector and academic in space science.

It is already home to local, national and international teams, with offices, shared laboratories, teaching facilities and co-working spaces focusing primarily on research, development and applications of space.

Prof Ambrosi is an expert in space instrumentation and space nuclear power systems and will lead the development of the innovative research, enterprise and education cluster.

He joined the University of Leicester in 2000, after completing a PhD in Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Since then he has lent his expertise to a number of international space missions, including the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission and ExoMars, and over the past decade, has lead the development of radioisotope power systems for the European Space Agency.

He has also previously chaired the UK Space Agencys Space Exploration Advisory Committee and serves on a number of national and international committees.

He said: I feel honoured to be taking on the role of Space Park Leicester executive director.

Having worked on the project from the beginning, it is very rewarding to have been part of the team that transformed an idea into the state-of-the-art facilities we see today.

I am looking forward to the opportunity of realising the ambition of Space Park Leicester, which ranges from enabling discovery science, to changing the economics of access to space, to transforming how we use data to address global challenges and driving innovation through collaboration with our industry partners.

The University of Leicester has an exceptionally talented team of people working in space research and together we can create new opportunities for Leicester, the UK and the next generation of space scientists and engineers"

As well as bringing together academia and industry, Space Park Leicester acts as the headquarters of the National Centre for Earth Observation.

Prof Sarah Davies, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Leicester, said: Space Park Leicester is a landmark project, not only for our University and region, but for the UK space sector and for our collaborators across the globe.

In Richard, we have appointed an executive director who matches our ambition to advance world-leading excellence in space research, inclusive education and training, and space-enabled industry as we look to consolidate Leicesters role as a space city.

We are hugely proud of our long-standing heritage in space research and exploration expanding to the real-world impacts of space-based technology development and manufacture with downstream application of space-derived data, including tracking and combating climate change.

With Richard at the head of a team of talented scientists, researchers and engineers, Space Park Leicester will play a key role in further developing the crucial links between industry and academia and supporting the skills pipeline required to expand the UKs space ambitions.

Other partners involved in Space Park Leicester include the European Union European Regional Development Fund, Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP), Leicester City Council, The Wolfson Foundation, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

A recently second phase will provide laboratories and workshops focused on advanced design and manufacturing of space systems, enabling technologies for space exploration, advancing the use of machine learning and automation in the space sector.

It houses one of the largest university-based clean room facilities in the UK.

There are also plans for a further development on the Leicester site, with a commercial Low Cost Access to Space (LoCAS) payload and satellite manufacturing facility for the manufacture of mid-range satellites.

The satellite production line will address the UKs need for facilities to make satellites and payloads for UK space tech companies and lower the barriers to new entrants in the market.

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Strahan, others take brief flight in space capsule

Football star and TV celebrity Michael Strahan caught a ride to space with Jeff Bezos' rocket-launching company Saturday, sharing the trip with the daughter of America's first astronaut. (Dec. 11)

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Ocean Township High School alumnus Lane Besshas boldly gone to space.

It's been three days since heblastedover what's known as the Krmn line and he's trying to put the experience into words for curious minds. So far, he's come up with"tranquil."

"What you see is a beautiful planet that's been here for billions of years and looks so peaceful. And it just really gives you a calming feeling. It brings to your mind the question, 'Why can't the earth be as peaceful on the planet as it seems from up here?'" Bess said.

TheKrmn line isthe internationally recognized boundary of space. It's62 miles, or330,000 feet, from the ground.

He flew on Blue Origin's spacecraft New Shepard. On the flightwashis son Cameron, 23;Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the late astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space;former New York Giant and co-host of "Good Morning America"Michael Strahan;Dylan Taylor, chairman & CEO of Voyager Space;and Evan Dick, a venture capitalist and airplane pilot.

Blue Origin was created by Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of retailing giant Amazon.

Space tourism: Ocean Township H.S. alum Lane Bess heading to space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin

Bess said one of the thingsthey did when they were weightless was tosssmall footballs to each other, courtesy of Strahan.

Blue Origin named theirspace flight "The Original Six," because it was the first of New Shepard's flights to carry a full passenger manifestof sixastronauts. The rocket was controlled from the ground. The flight was the rocket's 19th, though most of thosewere unmanned test launches.

Bess, a 1979 graduate of Ocean Township High School,andhis son Cameronalso made a bit of space history as the first parent/child combo to fly into space.

The flight was scheduledto launch from West Texas last Thursday, but due to strong winds was delayed until Saturday morning. They flew during the day so Bess said they did not see the moon or the stars, just vast darkness out toward space. The earth glowed several hues of blue.

"It was a day launch so you don't really see the stars. You see black. You see darkness, you see every shade of blue from the earth's sky," Bess said

Since they shot up from Texas, Bess said he could make out certain features of the United States, such as theRocky Mountains to theGulf of Mexico. They could see about one eighth of the earth's circumferencefrom their position.

They traveled at a speed of 2,800 mphon departure. They reached space in less than threeminutes. When they returned, the capsule floated down with parachutes and touched down in the soft desert sand, about four miles from the launch pad. The total flight time was about 11 minutes.

Blue Origin said itsvision ismillions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth.

Bess said he already wants to go up again, and said it's very possible that in the future people willcommute to space on short flights such as the one he took. Space exploration and the search for resources have already begun toaccelerate now that private investors are getting involved.

Blue Origin hasn't disclosed the ticket cost for New Shepard, and Bess has said he's not permitted by the company to reveal what he paid.

"These trips aren't about joy rides. It's about improving thetechnology," said Bess, who made his wealth providing venture capital to tech start-ups in the Silicon Valley.

Today, he'sthe principal and founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory, a family fund supporting technology firms, andlives in Miami Beach and Silicon Valley with his wife and three kids. He still has family at the Jersey Shore.

When Jersey Shore native Dan Radel is not reporting the news, you can find him in a college classroom where he is a history professor. Reach him @danielradelapp; 732-643-4072; dradel@gannettnj.com.

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Geologists uncover 'treasure trove' of dinosaur tracks in Poland

Hundreds of dinosaur footprints, so well-preserved that even the scaly skin can be seen, have been found in Poland, giving an insight into a complex ecosystem around 200 million years ago, geologists said. Described by the Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute as a treasure trove, the fossilised tracks and bones were found in an opencast clay mine in Borkowice, 130 km (80 miles) south of Warsaw.

NASA's Webb telescope promises an 'amazing journey' for astronomy

It was finished years late at a cost far higher than planned, but NASA's James Webb Space Telescope due for launch next week may usher in a new era in astronomy as it gathers information on the universe's earliest stages, star formation, and whether planets beyond our solar system may be suitable for life. The orbiting infrared observatory, designed to be about 100 times more sensitive than its Hubble Space Telescope predecessor, is due to blast off on Dec. 22 on an Ariane 5 rocket from a site in French Guiana on South America's northeastern coast.

Vaccines appear weak at blocking Omicron infection; shots may reduce long COVID burden

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Vaccines appear weak vs Omicron infection, better vs severe disease

U.S. Space Force holds war game to test satellite network under attack

The United States is testing satellite resiliency to threats from China and Russia miles above the earth's surface, just weeks after Russia shot down an aging communications satellite. The computer-aided simulations included potential shooting down of U.S. missile-tracking satellites, satellite jamming, and other electronic warfare "effects" that are possible tactics in space warfare. Actual satellites are not used.

Low staff vaccination tied to nursing home COVID deaths; experimental vaccine targets multiple coronaviruses

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Staff vaccination rates tied to nursing home COVID-19 deaths

Russia hopeful of space rides from NASA to ISS from 2022 - agency head

Moscow expects NASA to start taking cosmonauts to the International Space Station again and is hopeful that cooperation can resume next year, the head of the Russian space agency was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Russia has been the only country capable of delivering people to the ISS since 2011, when the U.S. space agency retired its space shuttle and divert resources towards deeper space exploration.

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Chinas Long March family of rockets has been deployed in most of the countrys space missions since its first flight in 1970. The indigenous rocket recently completed its 400th launch mission.

The mission was conducted by a Long March 4B rocket on the morning of December 10. The rocket carried Shijian 6-05 satellites, according to reports.

From the launch of the Tianlian-2-1 relay satellite by the Long March 3B till the latest mission involving the Long March 4B, it took less than 3 years (33 months), for the rocket family to accomplish the 400th launch mission, thus renewing the fastest record in the countrys aerospace history, Chinas state-owned media outlet Global Times reported.

Since 1970, the Long March carrier rockets have been involved in 92.1 percent of Chinas space launch missions.

According to scientists at the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the first 100 launches were completed in over 37 years. The second 100 launches were accomplished in a span of seven and a half years, the third took four years and three months, and the fourth only took two years and nine months, Xinhua Net reported.

The latest achievement of the Long March family was not easy to accomplish, space industry analysts said.

The primary reason behind the resilience of Chinas Long March family amid the pandemic is that it is equipped with fully domestically-built and controllable technology, Song Zhongping, a space analyst and TV commentator, told the Global Times on December 12.

During the 4th 100 launched period, the Long March rockets fulfilled several key missions they carried Chinas Tianhe space station core module, Shenzhou manned spacecraft, Change-5 lunar probe and the countrys first interplanetary Tianwen-1 Mars exploration mission, according to reports.

The fourth hundred launches are said to be the foundation for Chinas aerospace industry moving from quantitative change to qualitative change, and an important milestone for China to fully start building a space power nation, CASC developers said in a statement.

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), which is a subsidiary of the CASC and is also the main contractor and designer of the Long March rocket family, said that the academy is currently working on developing two types of heavy-duty carrier rockets.

The new rockets would be stronger than the Long March-5 and are capable of supporting future manned space missions and sending large probes into deep space. Known as the new-generation manned rocket, one of them is going to be a 90-meter-tall, three-stage model with an escape tower on the top.

The rocket will also have a weight-at-launch of 2,000 tons, and will be capable of sending a payload of 25 tons to the lunar transit orbit, or a payload of 70 tons to the new-Earth orbit.

The other new model will be the 100-ton level heavy-lift carrier rocket, which is under the CALT development and is expected to take maiden flight by 2028. It is capable of sending a payload of up to 140 tons to the near-Earth orbit and a payload of up to 50 tons to the lunar transit orbit or maximum of 44 tons to the Mars transit orbit, the academy told Global Times.

According to analysts, the US is hyping Chinas fast progress in the field of space exploration after blocking any scope of cooperation or exchange with Chinas space industry.

During a discussion at the Reagan National Defense Forum, Gen. David Thompson, vice chief of space operations for the US Space Force, said that China is developing its space capabilities at twice the rate of the US, CNN reported.

If we dont start accelerating our development and delivery capabilities, they will exceed us, Thompson said, adding that 2030 is not an unreasonable estimate.

According to Song, the US Space Force and NASA have been overestimating and selling the idea of China-threat in space to serve the purpose of consolidating its dominance in space.

China needs to steadily follow its own planned pace and neglect the US hype in developing its own space strength while heeding not to fall in the trap of space arms race and the US long-pursuit of militarizing the space, he added.

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The Kilgore Public Library is blasting off into the holiday season with a NASA@ My Library ornament contest and a special Christmas tree at the library has been decorated with hand-painted and personally designed space-themed Christmas ornaments.

The contest was held to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which is planned to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASAs flagship astrophysics mission and is scheduled to be launched on Dec. 22, according to information from NASA.

Library patrons and locals designed and decorated a number of unique ornaments, which can be seen hanging on the space-themed tree at the library. Participants voted for their favorite ornament on Friday.

Library Director Stacey Cole said the tree and ornaments are part of their year-long celebration of NASA and space exploration. Earlier this year, the library was selected through a competitive application process to be part of NASA@ My Library, an education initiative created to increase and enhance STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) learning opportunities for library patrons throughout the nation, including geographic areas and populations currently underrepresented in STEAM education.

As a NASA@ My Library partner, KPL will hold public programs that explore NASA science and technology, specifically around NASAs newest next-generation telescope launch (fall 2021), the first telescope images (spring 2022), and as part of the Collaborative Summer Library Program (summer 2022). More information, including a program schedule, will be available in the at kilgorelibrary.org.

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A passion for science and an interest in procedural crime shows on television led Aubrey Kreutzer to pursue a science major at Arizona State University. Download Full Image

Kreutzer will graduate Dec. 13 with a bachelors degree in forensic science from the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and honors from Barrett, The Honors College.

I have always been fascinated by science, and one day I started watching a crime show my mom was watching. I was drawn to a few other crime shows, and when I learned about what I could do in the field of forensic science with my passion for science, I was intrigued, and I decided this is what I wanted to study, said Kreutzer, whose hometown is Prescott, Arizona.

After graduation, she will immediately begin work as a laboratory assistant at Exact Sciences, a company specializing in early cancer detection, in downtown Phoenix.

I hope to grow with this company, and I am excited to see where it takes me, she said.

In addition to her studies, Kreutzer kept busy as a member of the Honors Devils, a student group that welcomes prospective honors students to campus, and as a student recruiting assistant for Barrett Honors College at the ASU West campus.

We asked her to look back on her undergraduate experience.

Question: What is an interesting moment or accomplishment in your ASU career? What are you proud of?

Answer: An interesting moment in my ASU career was sort of a bittersweet full circle moment I had when I was part of a club called Honors Devils. While participating in an overnight experience at ASU West my senior year of high school, I stayed in the room of a Barrett student named Abbie, who was in Honors Devils at the time. When I came to ASU West my freshman year, I decided to join the club.The next spring, I was able to host a prospective student named Sydnee for an overnight experience in my dorm. When she came to ASU as a freshman that August, she went on to join Honors Devils as well.

By that time, I was a sophomore and had moved up to being vice president of the club. Two years later, I started my senior year and became president of Honors Devils, and Sydnee became the vice president of public relations. Later that year, when I was getting ready to leave Honors Devils, she was elected to take my place as president. It was bittersweet to have followed in Abbies footsteps to start my journey with Honors Devils, and then to watch Sydnee grow, follow in my footsteps and take over for me when I left.

I am proud of finishing my degree, and in a way much deeper than I ever anticipated.After the pandemic escalated in March 2020 and we isolated for months, I became extremely depressed. I was living alone and I was working remotely, barely interacting with friends or leaving the house. As an extrovert, this wrecked me.I have always been a committed student, but as the end of the fall 2020 semester approached, I was failing one of my classes and I could not bring myself to care about it. Thats when I knew I wasnt OK.

About three weeks before the end of the semester, I decided to confide in a few people close to me who hadnt known what I was going through. After that, I began talking to my thesis director and academic adviser about how to move forward, and I even considered withdrawing the entire semester and finishing my degree later.I had to retake my failed class over this summer and still had to work through a lot of hurdles in my mental health to finish my degree. But it is one year later, and I am still here. It was difficult, but I did it. I finished my thesis. I will graduate.

I will begin a new position downtown. I am incredibly grateful to have made it to where I am today, despite what the last year and a half has brought.

Q: Whats something you learned while at ASU in the classroom or otherwise that surprised you or changed your perspective?

A: While at ASU, I worked as a student recruiter for Barrett. I learned a lot during that time, and something which changed my perspective was seeing the support my supervisor provided to each and every student regardless of their college decision. No matter if they chose to go to ASU, she put her full effort into making sure that student was prepared and had all the resources they needed. It taught me that everyone deserves to pursue their dreams, and we must let them explore where to do so and support them in any way we can.

Q: Why did you choose ASU?

A: I chose ASU for a few reasons. I was originally looking at schools in California, but I couldnt afford to go there. I toured the three major Arizona universities and Grand Canyon University, but I was intrigued by ASU from the beginning. ASU West always felt like home, and I was consistently impressed by all that ASU had to offer. I loved that I could live at the beautiful West campus and still have access to all other campuses and participate in universitywide events.

Q: Which professor taught you the most important lesson while at ASU?

A: My toxicology professor and thesis director, Dr. Shirly Montero, taught me the importance of taking a break and validating your own mental health. She was a huge support for me during my mental health struggles and overcoming those in writing my thesis. She never questioned me. She was real with me. She saw what I was going through and she helped me find ways to focus and work through it.

Q: Whats the best piece of advice youd give to those still in school?

A: Get involved. Try new things. But never lose yourself. Never stop prioritizing yourself. Get to know who you are and how you function. Learn how to fuel and refresh yourself and take time to do that. Your mental health is more important than what you accomplish.

Q: What was your favorite spot on campus, whether for studying, meeting friends or just thinking about life?

A: My favorite spot on the ASU West campus was the Sands Courtyard, with the Barrett Suite coming in close behind it. The Sands Courtyard was usually lined with flowers and a fountain in the middle, making it one of the most peaceful spots on campus. It was a great place to work on homework when it wasnt too hot outside, and I loved to listen to the water of the fountain. The Barrett Suite comes in close second since many of the friends I made in Barrett hung out there, and I could always go there to study or see a familiar face.

Q: If someone gave you$40millionto solve one problem on our planet, what would you tackle?

A: If I had $40 million to only solve one problem, it would be the problem of basic living necessities, including homelessness and people in foreign and third-world countries who do not have enough to eat. There are millions of people in this country and in the world who do not have enough to eat or drink or have a safe place to sleep. Everyone deserves to go to sleep with a full belly and a warm bed.

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In a revelation that will surprise almost no one, the 2022 World Inequality Report found that one space flight emits more carbon dioxide than most of the worlds population will create in their entire lifetime.

While other parts of the report focus on labor, income and economic inequality, the researchers also included a statistic spotted by folks on social media and highlighted by Gizmodo that perfectly sums up the relationship between those who create greenhouse gases versus those who suffer most from them.

Perhaps the most conspicuous illustration of extreme pollution associated with wealth inequality in recent years is the development of space travel, the report states. An 11-minute flight emits no fewer than 75 tonnes of carbon per passenger About one billion individuals emit less than one tonne per person per year. Over their lifetime, this group of one billion individuals does not emit more than 75 tonnes of carbon per person.

If youre wondering which space flight the World Inequality Report is addressing, well, the team didnt call anyone out by name. But Jeff Bezos much-publicized space flight back in July was about that length of time, as Gizmodo pointed out. Bezos, the Amazon founder currently wrapped up in Blue Origins space tourism junket, effectively puts out more carbon than most humans could create in their lifetime each time he sends up a rocket.

Bezos isnt the only billionaire partaking in space tourism, of course.Japanese billionare Yusaku Maezawa is currently on a twelve-day space vacation aboard the International Space Station. The flight was planned by US-based Space Adventures. Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Group, also took himself to the edge of space.

You might be thinking of a fourth billionaire involved in space exploration not yet mentioned, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk hasnt personally traveled to space with his company SpaceX. Of course, SpaceX has sent its own tourists to orbit, which presumably has an even higher carbon footprint than Bezos edge-of-space joyrides. In fact, its scheduled to launch Maezawa on yet another trip, this time around the Moon in a jaunt scheduled a few years from now.

The World Inequality Report argues that to hold the biggest greenhouse gas emitters responsible, we need to better track global emission numbers.

Large inequalities in emissions suggest that climate policies should target wealthy polluters more, the authors write. So far, climate policies such as carbon taxes have often disproportionately impacted low and middle income groups.

Its the equivalent of being told to recycle your cardboardand pay for municipal recycling pickup, in other words its a nice gesture,but no matter how hard you try, youll never offset a single Bezos space journey.

Similarly, climate change in the US is expected to affect poor people the most, and the UN has warned that climate change could even aggravate terrorism in countries where impoverished people must commit violent acts just to survive.

It sounds like if we want to have a habitable planet in the near future, in other words, were going to have to hold billionaires accountable for their excessive emissions in a real way.

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In February, NASA will launch the first un-crewed test flight of its Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket as it prepares to send astronauts back to the moon.

Artemis I is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to take place over the next few years. It will be followed by a second crewed test flight and a third flight that will land astronauts on the moons south-pole. NASA expects that will be in 2025, at the earliest.

The agency says partnerships with private companies like SpaceX will build the lunar lander to ferry astronauts to the moons surface, making the Artemis program possible.

The private space race has allowed NASA, and agencies like it, to turn their attention from Earths lower orbit and start planning for future missions, like Artemis. And as the agency plans to send astronauts to new frontiers, it is encouraging private industry to establish a greater presence in lower-Earth orbit by collaborating with the private sector on a new space station.

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The International Space Station is now more than 20 years old, approved for use until 2024, with a likely extension only until the end of 2028 or 2030. NASAs office of audits released a report at the start of December detailing the costly repairs to the orbiting laboratory that have been needed over time. It said maintenance and system upgrades to the ISS increased to approximately $169 billion in 2020.

On Dec. 3, NASA announced three U.S. Companies that would receive over $400 million in government funding to develop commercial space stations Jeff Bezos Blue Origin, Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman.

Misty Snopkowski, Program Executive for the commercial LEO development program at NASA, says commercial stations, like the ones these three companies are developing, will help the agency travel deeper into space.

Were trying to go deeper into space and we can give this very well understood environment in LEO to commercial entities for them to start establishing that LEO economy, she says, adding that instead of owner and operator of a new space station, NASA would be one of many customers using the orbiting laboratory.

With less of its funding tied up in the International Space Station, the agency will be free to throw more cash at deep space exploration, Snopkowski says.

But there is still research that needs to be done in order to make these frontier missions possible. She says the agency has approximately 200 long-term experiments, most of which study the impact of space travel on the human body. The agency needs that work to continue after the International Space Station is decommissioned.

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Those types of research, human research, [have] long lead times, she explains.

Such research not only helps further NASAs ambitions in space, it is also helps us tackle big challenges on Earth, says York University astrophysicist Jesse Rogerson.

Going to the moon and going to Mars is going to push our understanding of how to do agriculture, he says, as an example of how research in space can help us improve conditions on Earth. Because we cant do a permanent settlement on the moon or Mars without living off the land. So pushing that science to the very edge so that we can grow something on Mars would inevitably help us do better on Earth.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who acts as CAPCOM at the Canadian Space Agency while he awaits his first flight assignment, says his agency is also involved in discussions about a future commercial space station. In addition to freeing-up funding for future deep space travel, he says such a partnership could reveal new ways to save money on research.

The space agency, we expect, will always be doing research in orbit. But the model on how we do that could change, could create more opportunities and could allow us to do more for less money, he says.

Hansen adds that collaborating with private industry will create more opportunities for astronauts to explore space, a boon for the Canadian Space Agency, whose astronauts have had to wait years to go to space as they wait for a seat to open on a mission.

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One upcoming mission Canada is taking part in will be Artemis II, the crewed test of the Orion spacecraft that will eventually transport astronauts to the moon.

The private space race will also create more opportunities for scientists and astronomers hoping to conduct research in space, Rogerson adds.

Conversations about the research platform that will eventually replace the International Space Station come amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Russia, another partner on the ISS.

Although space exploration has largely been insulated from politics, tension has reared its head in that domain as well, with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticizing Russia for a dangerous and irresponsible missile strike that blew up one of its own satellites stating the U.S. had not been warned about the test.

While Snopkowski did not mention any specific tensions with Russia, or any other international partners on the ISS, she did say NASA is trying to determine how to keep those important channels of communication open.

Theres a soft diplomacy there when it comes to space where everybody comes together around it, right, from different parts of the world and so thats something that NASA wants to maintain, she says.

Thats very important for the agency and is something that were working on, just to figure out what would that model look like going forward, once we transfer to these commercial platforms.

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Hansen says the Canadian Space Agency is just as committed to international diplomacy as its American counterpart, and he suggests that collaboration between governments is not going away.

Weve already set a tremendous example of how we can work together, how we can do more together. I dont think thats going away. Were certainly not going to let it go away with a fight, anyway, he adds.

He says through continued collaboration, between agencies like CSA and NASA and private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, we can develop technologies that will make space travel safer for future generations.

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