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Old November 26th 17, 05:31 AM posted to sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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Default NASA is teaming up with Russia to put a new space station nearthe moon. Here's why.

On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 7:28:06 AM UTC+13, 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?


https://www.wired.com/2013/07/lunar-flying-units-1969/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BA_2100

Put a space station in a highly elliptic orbit with a 9.1 day period - that travels between the Earth and moon one out of every three orbits.

Put a space station in an orbit around the moon that has a perilune at 50 km and an apolune near the apogee of the transfer station - and then - use rocket belts to transfer astronauts between stations and to and from the surface.