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NASA also recently awarded contracts, worth a combined $415.6 million, to a team led by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, a team including Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, as well as Northrop Grumman, to develop their own private space stations. While NASA would not own or operate them, it would use them as a customer, and continue to have a place to send its astronauts well after the ISS is decommissioned.