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Old November 28th 17, 07:30 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default NASA is teaming up with Russia to put a new space station near the moon. Here's why.

wrote:

On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 2:28:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:
"At the International Aeronautics Congress in Adelaide, Australia, representatives
of NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that they had signed an
agreement to work together on venturing into deep space, with the first conceptual
goal being a deep space gateway. In plain language, that means we're building a
space station somewhere near the moon.

Building on the success of the International Space Station, the plan is to build
something that could act as a waypoint for trips to the lunar surface, or even to
more distant locales like Mars. And the hope is that it could be built as soon as
the 2020’s."

See:

https://www.popsci.com/nasa-russia-moon-space-station


Considering all the problems we've had with building and maintaining an earth-
orbiting space station, how likely is this to succeed?


I would try to place a small asteroid in orbit around the moon.
Mine it, and leave a cavity with a single pressure wall with
an airlock.


But you're an idiot, so what you'd try isn't of any particular
interest.


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