(Karl Hallowell) wrote in message . com...
(Tony Rusi) wrote in message om...

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The re-entry of skylab, the salyuts, and mir seem to be such a waste,
they too could have been placed at L1 and L5.

Some words of caution here. They might be placed at L1 or L5, but I
suspect that they would get in the way at a future date. That was the
real reason they were deorbited in the first place. Note that L1 and
L5 are well outside of Earth's magnetosphere (most of the time except
when passing through the tail) so the shielding on these craft
wouldn't be adequate for human survival.

I just spent the last three years at Bigelow Aerospace refining the
design of a flexible packable shield that you can add to the outside
of any spacecraft or spacebase.