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A comment on Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission. Parent comment

Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M... by malfist on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:00AM (#33955310)
To be fair, their space station is 3 modules and about the size of mir. It is significantly smaller than the ISS.
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Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M... by pfdietz on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:21PM (#33957367)
The ISS showed large space vehicles can be assembled from small modules that could be launched on the Space Shuttle.

This is the major accomplishment of the ISS program. So what does NASA do? Decide (or be told to decide), "oh no, we need a launcher that can lift much bigger things, because OF COURSE we can't put smaller modules together in space."

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