08/15/2018
https://www.congress.gov...
"SpaceX, for example, told me in a few years, they expect to be--just SpaceX--launching 40 launches a year just from the Cape."
"So how can we improve the ISS as an incubator to help enterprises such as yours, and do you see that it needs to be extended beyond the existing life, which is 2024?"
"the destruct system that previously was always done by the Air Force...has on some of the commercial activities and launches been replaced with an autonomous flight safety system."
"We would strongly recommend that a transition plan be created that is committed to a continuous presence in low Earth orbit for persistent microgravity platforms."