Habitat Contamination - Warning: Rambling Ahead!

On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 07:50 PM, victoriatangoman
wrote:

> We all know that trvel to and from the Habitat is going to be a
> journey taking at a minimum 3 days if the Habitat is at L5 or in a
> 2:1 resonant orbit.

These orbits were proposed assuming lunar materials. If asteroidal
materials are used then the colony can be in any orbit that won't decay
quickly. I suspect a high Earth orbit is best. Does anyone know how
high you can go before getting into the high-radiation portion of the
van Allen belts?

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Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html