A starring role for NASA in Biden’s push to end cancer

Key Facts

• Biden proposed ramping up opportunities for public-private collaboration aboard the space station in his fiscal 2024 budget, but both the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate want to cut NASA funding.
• Ultimately, they will have to be ready, said Roberts: “The government has a very important role to play in funding early-stage research, but at some point things that have the most impact on humanity — that’s driven by the commercial sector.”
• Congress made the space station a national laboratory in 2005, opening it up to scientific work funded by other agencies and private organizations.
• NASA has extended the deadline for closing the space station in the past, and the slow switchover of resources and responsibilities remains a work in progress.

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