NATIONWIDE — As the International Space Station is set to retire in 2030, Axiom Space is hoping to be one of the few commercial companies to have a space station that will replace the famed floating laboratory.

The International Space Station is set to deorbit in 2030 after three decades of operations since the first Expedition 1 mission on Nov. 02, 2000.

Last year, NASA selected SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that will safely deorbit the International Space Station to an unpopulated section of the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. space agency will be giving the California-based company $843 million to modify Dragon capsule to bring the aging space station back down to Earth.

However, before the space station goes to its watery grave, Texas-based company Axiom Space plans to use it to birth it

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