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TL;DR

The ISS is retiring, and governments want out of the orbital landlord business.

Commercial stations must avoid repeating the ISS’s expensive, subsidy-reliant mistakes.

The path forward? Treat space as a service (standardized, priced access) and adopt biotech-style equity models (royalties, stakes in user success).

Pair that with a tiered public funding exit strategy, build a real orbital ecosystem, and stop pretending bespoke infrastructure is a business plan.

Let’s Just Build Another Billion‑Dollar Paperweight in Orbit

Listen up, space cowboys: the ISS is retiring, and you’ve got two choices. Either build another multi‑decade albatross funded by taxpayers, or try something novel, like actually owning your opportunity.

Here’s the genius plan nobody in orbit has thought of: sell microgravity by the kilo, not as politics theater. Package it like AWS, with transparent pricing, modules that plug and play, and SLAs that don’t demand an act of Congress to insert a payload.

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