The ISS is being deorbited around 2030. Inside the Zvezda cracking, SpaceX's $843M deorbit vehicle, and the four commercial stations racing to replace it.
Inside Axiom Space: private astronaut missions, the AxEMU Artemis EVA suit, the AxH1 ISS module, and the staged plan for a standalone commercial station.
Space tourism in 2026: Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, SpaceX, Axiom, Polaris and Space Perspective ticket prices from $125K stratospheric to $55M orbital.
The commercial space stations racing to replace the ISS by 2030: Axiom Station, VAST's Haven-1, Orbital Reef, Starlab, Tiangong, and ISRO's Bharatiya Antariksh Station under NASA's CLD program.
How Axiom Space plans to build the world's first commercial space station by docking modules to the ISS first, then detaching to form a private orbital outpost.
The companies defining space in 2025: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Intuitive Machines, Axiom, Sierra Space, Relativity, Firefly, and Astrobotic's lunar landings.