Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin...
by generalizations on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:20PM
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A simple first step done sooner is better than a complex first step done later. Also, seems like there's a lot to learn about space habitats just by building another one - we haven't made that many yet.
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin...
by generalizations on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:52AM
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Most of those things were largely too tiny to count as much more than practice runs for building actual space stations - in that list, the majority were less than 1/30th the size of the ISS - did you see the column on the side listing the cubic feet of space in them? 100m^3 is a ~4.5m box.
So yes, we've put 11 space stations in orbit: only if you count a one-room flying can as a space station. I think we have a few more practice steps to go before we start hollowing out asteroids as GP was suggesting we do next.