It's also interesting we go from an international space station to something that seems to be solely driven by US companies. I wonder what the other agencies will go for, and whether they still will be involved.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada). As the largest space station ever constructed, it primarily serves as a platform for conducting scientific experiments in microgravity and studying the space environment.
It's also interesting we go from an international space station to something that seems to be solely driven by US companies. I wonder what the other agencies will go for, and whether they still will be involved.
From Wikipedia.