Space Industries was founded in Houston, Texas by Maxime Faget, who had recently retired as chief of engineering and operations at NASA, as well as entrepreneurs James Calaway, Guillermo Trotti, and Larry Bell.
Faget proposed this plan because maintaining continuous life support would be cost prohibitive.
Calaway lobbied the United States government to be an anchor tenant in the proposed space station.
It was to have 31 payload racks housing up to 11,000 kg (11 tons) of commercial industrial and microgravity manufacturing experiments.
[2] Software was developed that used a learning heuristic algorithm in order to most efficiently use the ISF's resources.