WH mulls buyer for space lab

Space, the final frontier — of real estate.

The Trump administration is proposing ending federal support of the International Space Station and allowing it to become privatized, according to The Washington Post.

The government would pull the orbiting lab’s financing after 2024, the newspaper said, citing NASA documents.

“The decision to end direct federal support for the ISS in 2025 does not imply that the platform itself will be deorbited at that time — it is possible that industry could continue to operate certain elements or capabilities of the ISS as part of a future commercial platform,” the document says.

The plan to privatize the station — the largest single human structure ever put in space — is expected to draw out-of-this-world criticism considering the US has spent nearly $100 billion to build and operate it, the newspaper said.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said last week he hopes reports about the possibility of ending funding “prove as unfounded as Bigfoot.”