Private Space 

If NASA doesn't want the Space Station, then Eric Anderson will take it.
The president of space-tourism company Space Adventures has proposed increasing commercialization of the International Space Station as NASA pulls out of ISS.
Of course, that ignores the issues of the fact that NASA plans to be involved in ISS for most, if not all of its planned functional life (and while it's extremely likely that ISS would be usable beyond that point, it's questionable how well private interests could maintain it in safe operating condition past that), and the fact that ISS is not really NASA's to give away. It's possible that some of the 15 other nations in the partnership might want to use it more.
Still, it's a nice thought, as is his vision of space tourists making Apollo 8-style trips around the Moon in as little as 15-20 years from now.

:: :: 09:19 :: David :: [permalink] ::