To: Brett66
No, the ISS has no value as a lunar staging point. It's at too high an inclination, and too expensive to get to.
To: NonZeroSum
I guess if the decision is ever made to go back to the moon or Mars we'll have to build another facility at an optimal orbit for assembling the spacecraft in orbit. I seem to remember NASA billing the space station as a staging point for Lunar or Mars missions. That must have been before the toon decided to include the Russians and change it's orbit to accomodate them.
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12/20/2002 10:20:01 AM PST by
Brett66
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