NanoRacks, which has used the airlock on the International Space Station's Kibo module to deploy dozens of customers' cubesats, wants to add its very own airlock to the ISS.

Thursday’s briefing begins with NanoRacks pressing ahead with plans for a private airlock on the ISS and NASA awarding for design studies for the Asteroid Redirect Mission spacecraft.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...