I think there missing a golden opportunity and are being short sighted. If they are truly going to clean up space junk, why not send it to the moon? That way when moon bases are being built, they will already have resources up there to work with instead of sending it back down to Earth? It would make sense to develop a plan to reuse those parts instead of letting them partially burn up on reentry, and shipping more materials to another planetary object. Just my $0.10. Am I missing something?
While the shuttle had the space arm, the shuttle fleet has been retired. I think we should be reuse as much of those components as we can.
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I think there missing a golden opportunity and are being short sighted. If they are truly going to clean up space junk, why not send it to the moon? That way when moon bases are being built, they will already have resources up there to work with instead of sending it back down to Earth? It would make sense to develop a plan to reuse those parts instead of letting them partially burn up on reentry, and shipping more materials to another planetary object. Just my $0.10. Am I missing something?
While the shuttle had the space arm, the shuttle fleet has been retired. I think we should be reuse as much of those components as we can.
-JIW