Tedx wrote:Ive just read over on Next Big Future that Musk's Starship will be converted into spaces stations (apparently the cargo bit of Starship is the same size as the ISS)
I remember the time it took and the number of launches to get the current ISS built and now they can get something of a similar size into space in one launch - at a cost of $20 million ler launch. In fact the author speculated that a space station built from 50 Starship launches would only cost a billion dollars.
No wonder the Chinese are speaking to the Americans again.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/06/n ... ation.html
Back in the days of the Space Shuttle I used to wonder what would be needed to get the big fuel tanks into earth orbit. Once there, they could be linked up to provide a larger space station.
Adrian