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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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  4. We don't need another money pit. by alchemist68 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The U.S., Russia, and other countries can't even complete and maintain the current Space Station on schedule, and it still isn't as functional as was orginally intended with the current time schedule. Though this makes for some cool Gee-whiz science and experience working in low/no gravaity environments, I don't foresee any nobel-prize winning science coming out of the International Space Station. We certainly don't need another one.

    If NASA intends on building something useful, it should consider building a large space ship for touring the solar system for conducting long term research with a crew of about 100 people. For propulsion, it could probably use a very large array of solar panels and those non/asymmetrical capacitors that were recently patented by NASA. Heck, with the large electric field generated from the propulsion system, external radiation might not be the serious problem that it is currently on the International Space Station.

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