10 May 2017
During a presentation at the 2017 Humans to Mars conference in Washington, D.C. on 9 May, Aldrin said, NASA should continue to hand over activities in low Earth orbit (LEO) to private industry partners. Bigelow Aerospace, Axiom Space or other companies should build and operate LEO space stations that are independent of the ISS, he added. Ideally, the first of these commercial outposts would share key orbital parameters with the station that China plans to have up and running by the early 2020s, to encourage cooperation with the Chinese, he stated.
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