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Proposed Next-Generation Space Station

Posted by timothy on from the one-ticket-for-5/6ths-of-the-way-to-the-moon dept.

WallytheWalrus writes "This NewScientist.com article discusses the proposed next generation of telescopes and space stations. The concept presented with little fanfare by the NASA Exploration Team (NEXT) consists of placing a space station about 5/6ths of the way to the moon at one of a handful of local Lagrangian Points. This station would act as a springboard for constructing new telescopic mirrors, maintaining the telescopes that use them, and as a haven for future manned exploration missions. If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...."

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  1. A real NASA project by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    NASA should invent a time machine for the sole purpose of preventing slashdot duplications.

  2. Progress... by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny
    If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year...."

    Well, at least this year the toilets on the space station will be ready and paid for.

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  3. Re:lagrangian points by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    The point where the gravitational pulls of the Earth and the Moon cancel each other out is somewhere inside the Earth crust.

    Yep, that's why people on the surface of the earth occationally fall up to the moon, because they are on the moon side of the balancing point.

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