L5

So am I. The Saturn 5 rockets got US astronauts to the Moon, and there
were a couple left over when Apollo ended. But they were not maintained
and soon were not functional. The Space Shuttle could never go anywhere
but low earth orbit, and that was only if it was launched going east.
It can not go to higher orbits such as geosynch. So how could the US
build something at the Moon's distance? Now we (the US) can not even
get astronauts to low earth orbit, but must use Russian rockets, which
also can not go to the Moon or L5. We have never had the capabilities
to build the ISS at L5.

Of course we think we could do it if some one would just pay for
detailed plans and a lot of engineering. I find it frustrating that
there is so much bad-mouthing the Shuttle and ISS. They seemed like
good ideas at the time, and it is only in hind sight that their failures
are clear, but the Shuttle has served us well for a long time. Being in
low-earth orbit was a good plan. We went there on the way to the Moon
in Apollo. Just where in space would one go without first getting to
LEO?

Jay Huebner

Behalf Of George Perkins

I'm talking moon-earth L5. Same distance as the moon. The Russians
were offering a trip involving orbiting the moon several times and
returning.

I don't think this is a big leap in technology to do this.

> A significant problem with building anything for humans at L5 is that
no