New NASA manager James Brydenstein looks for private companies that could take over the management of the US part of the ISS. According to The Washington Post, candidates already exist, but the US aerospace agency does not yet disclose them. According to Brydenstein, he has already negotiated with a number of large corporations that are ready to form a consortium for these purposes. In early 2018, representatives of the administration of Donald Trump hinted that, perhaps, direct government funding for the ISS by 2025 will cease, so the US segment will be able to move into private hands.

Some congressmen at the same time expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of the White House to terminate early participation in the ISS work. Since then, the question of whether any investor will invest in the station remains open. ISS program for almost 20 years, annually NASA spends on it from $ 3 to $ 4 billion dollars.

The international station began to be built in 1998, 14 countries took part in the project, including Russia, the United States, Japan, Canada and a number of European countries,. en ". In the first years of operation of the ISS, astronauts flew to the station not only on Russian Soyuz rockets, but also on reusable shuttles produced by the United States. After the shutdown of the Space Shuttle program, the United States began to rent space for astronauts on Russian spacecraft. At the same time, the United States is displeased with the fact that the price for shipping Americans to the orbit is constantly increasing.