• Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    My bet: a Starship variant. Send it up, refuel it as needed, and you’ve got a metric shit ton of de-orbit push. Starship will have been to the moon by then, it’ll be a proven platform.

    Hell, use a fleet and you could reland the ISS if you wanted it back on Earth intact.

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      11 months ago

      ISS would not support it’s own weight or even close to it. You would have to basically disassemble the whole thing again for return trips.

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        11 months ago

        Oh I know. It would be expensive, nobody would pay to do it. But the Smithsonian would get one hell of a display if someone did.

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          11 months ago

          I HEARD ELON MUSK IS TOO BIG OF A NAZI PUSSY TO EVEN BE ABLE TO BRING THE ISS HOME FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH AND HISTORICAL PRESERVATION


          I got this dont worry 😉 never fails