Why is NASA wasting billions of dollars on building a stupid space station orbiting the Moon instead of just building a base on the moon first?Is this just a giant money pit that will never happen?
It may be the case that a base in orbit is more useful than a base on the surface, and not so much more expensive that it isn't worth it.
>>492025198Space stations don't have to deal with Lunar regolith being an utter bitch for anything near a landing site.
More fuel efficient to have an orbiting station, and then just doing landings whenever you gotta do something on the surface.