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Lunar Orbit Station



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Lunar Orbit Station
1975 Concept
Credit: NASA via Marcus Lindroos
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Lunar Fuel Stop
Lunar Orbit Oxygen Refuelling Facility, 1984 Concept
Credit: NASA via Marcus Lindroos
American manned lunar orbiter. Study 1984. A variety of lunar orbital way-stations, based on space station components, were studied by NASA in the 1980's.

The station would typically be a depot for rocket propellants generated on the moon and placed in a lunar orbit fuelling and servicing station for tugs moving between the earth and the moon, or onward to Mars.

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