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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: _Moon Landing Mission Profiles_
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:42:19 -0500
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On 3/25/2024 8:09 AM, John Savard wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:14:32 -0400, Cryptoengineer
> <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/21/2024 11:46 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> 
>>> And the stepladder suggestion seems to presuppose that the Moon is
>>> both very close to the Earth and yet stationary relative to the Earth,
>>> which might be harder to achieve then just contracting the orbit.
> 
>> The Earth-Moon Roche limit is 9600 km, center to center, or about 2000
>> km surface to surface.
> 
> Well, then, geostationary orbit should do just fine.
> 
> So the only problem would be what material to make the stepladder out
> of.
> 
> Well, that and not getting tired on the climb up.
> 
> John Savard

So, who gets the Moon permanently stationed above them ?

I can see people for it and against it both.

Lynn