President Donald Trump wants to end US funding for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025 with the aim of putting it into private hands. His plans for ISS and the Nasa space programme were unveiled in his 2019 budget proposal. <br/><br/>According to the White House proposal, which was released on Monday, NASA would rely on commercial partners for its low Earth orbit research and technology demonstration requirements. <br/><br/>The document said the US government would create a 150 millon US dollar programme to help prepare private companies to take over space station operations over the next seven years. <br/><br/>The budget requests 19.6 billion dollar for Nasa in 2019, an increase of 500 million dollar from this year.

President Donald Trump wants to end US funding for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025 with the aim of putting it into private hands. His plans for ISS and the Nasa space programme were unveiled in his 2019 budget proposal. <br/><br/>According to the White House proposal, which was released on Monday, NASA would rely on commercial partners for its low Earth orbit research and technology demonstration requirements. <br/><br/>The document said the US government would create a 150 millon US dollar programme to help prepare private companies to take over space station operations over the next seven years. <br/><br/>The budget requests 19.6 billion dollar for Nasa in 2019, an increase of 500 million dollar from this year.