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To: Telepathic Intruder
What we need is a base on the moon that could at least be used as a staging area for missions to the other planets and asteroids.

Can the ISS be hauled to the moon and put into a lunar orbit to support development of a lunar base? We'd need to develop a space tug ship that can slowly push it out to the moon, but why not?

After all, getting it into space in the first place was the hard part. Why lose the investment now? Let it serve as a space port over the moon for lunar base construction.

-PJ

29 posted on 05/21/2018 2:04:30 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

We don’t own the entire ISS. By treaty it belongs to several different countries, including the U.S. and Russia. I have no idea if it can be “hauled”, or rather pushed into a lunar orbit. It’s nearing the end of its projected life anyway.


30 posted on 05/21/2018 2:23:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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