I wonder if there's any useful heavy equipment aboard the ISS that could be transferred to the Axiom prior to separation and thus salvaged. It'd have to be stuff the ISS could do without for the remaining couple years of its life.
I am guessing that:<p>Space Station AMS-02 Instrument Works on the Mystery of Dark Matter<p><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/space-station-ams-02-instrument-works-on-the-mystery-of-dark-matter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/space-station-ams-02-inst...</a><p>Is coming to its end of life too<p>As a CERN experiment it seems to have produced a lot of science:<p><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/space-station-ams-02-instrument-works-on-the-mystery-of-dark-matter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/space-station-ams-02-inst...</a>
NASA's next space station will be in lunar orbit:<p><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission/gateway/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nasa.gov/mission/gateway/</a>
reminds me of the space liner from walle - they should add a mcdonalds module to it that is fully automated. just as a marketing campaign to be first autonomous fast food chain in space on the axiom… also for good meme content