[Brett66]

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.

[NonZeroSum]

That's what NASA's NeXT plan is all about. They want to establish a staging point at L1.

[KevinDavis]

I believe the Gipper prosposed the space station to do that.