[meteorite-list] Send the ISS to the moon

2008-07-15 Thread Darren Garrison
Sounds good to me. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102394.html It's All Decked Out. Give It Somewhere to Go. By Michael Benson Sunday, July 13, 2008; B03 Consider the International Space Station, that marvel of incremental engineering. It has close to

Re: [meteorite-list] Send the ISS to the moon

2008-07-15 Thread Mike Bandli
The idea of re-using space hardware is great one and has been done before. Unfortunately the ISS cannot simply be ferried out of earth orbit. This would require a massive propulsion retrofit to slingshot it to the moon or elsewhere. Even then, the ISS could not handle the structural stress of