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Mark Kelly: “We're planning to retire [the space station] in 2030.”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Sen. Mark Kelly on Artemis II: What astronauts see beyond the moon

Published | Video Starts at 02:00

We did that in low Earth orbit. We launched the space station in the late 90s. It's been operating now. It's coming up on 30 years. We're planning to retire [the space station] in 2030. We're going to transition to commercial space stations. But what this Artemis II mission is doing is it's allowing us to check out the Orion spacecraft that's getting us back to the moon. (02:00–02:04)

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