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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Space is hard. Like, really really hard. How do you assemble things in orbit without first getting the material up there? And if you are hauling excess mass to orbit, why not build it on the ground? It may make sense in the future to assemble on the Moons, should we one day have a way of extracting and processing materials on the moon into something useful, but we are so far away from that.
As for an alternative to rockets, there aren't really any. Spinlaunch is the only one I can think of, and it still uses a rocket.
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We could use the finest 1919 technology from that movie from the earth to the moon, and build a large style hypervelocity (based on the advanced naval gun program) cannon to shoot components into orbit for the station to pick up. Plus putting astronaugts in a cannon would be awesome.
Sorry to derail the thread.