work in orbital construction

Is the stuff at Space Science Institute
(http://www.ssi.org/introduction.html)
too theoretical?

Brad W.

>From: Al Globus
>Reply-To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
>To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [spacesettlers] work in orbital construction
>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:15:07 -0800
>
>Does anyone know of any serious work in orbital construction (including
>papers about ISS and Mir construction at a detailed level)? I'm
>putting together a proposal to a NASA program to build a simulator and
>scheduler for construction of a very large orbital telescope and can't
>find much on the web beyond vigorous hand waving.
>
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>The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
>jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
>Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
>pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr.
>Tito going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
>probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
>roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
>great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?
>
>Al Globus
>CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
>http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
>
>Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
>position of any organization I'm familiar with.
>

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