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From: Michael Capriola [mailto:capcartoonist@hotmail.com]

> The ISS should have been built in HEO. It's current
> location means it's destined to be a /temporary/ space station.

Even if limited to LEO, it should have at least been placed into
equatorial LEO, rather than the current inclination which was to
accommodate the Russians. Now when a station is needed as a
transportation node to the moon and beyond, we'll have to build another
one.

But I guess the counter-argument to that is that if the Russians
couldn't access it, then right now NOBODY could.

I'd favor an equatorial LEO spaceport, and then a way station at the
Earth-moon L-1 point, both in support of Earth-moon runs and as a
staging point for departures from cislunar space.

> PS: What's CAT? (Apart from that critter who keeps
> begging me to feed him)

CATS: Cheap Access To Space

Regards,

Mike Combs