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Some recent EML-1 Comments
Ken Murphy — (archived)

Buzz Aldrin:
"We think a visionary goal needs to be stated at the Kitty Hawk ceremony later this year (celebrating the centenary of powered flight) so we can proceed and develop the Orbital Space Plane based on that vision. That vision should be an Earth-Moon L1 human-tended facility. We think you could do that with only two or three launches of an advanced launch vehicle, not the dozens of launches required for ISS.

L1 is the stepping stone that opens up access to the lunar surface, near-Earth objects, and telescopes that we want to build in space.

Some scientists talk about putting a facility at Sun-Earth L2, but it's cold there! It's in shadow all the time. You could put telescopes there but I don't think humans should be there. If you want to service a telescope at Sun-Earth L2, you move it to Earth-Moon L1. You can move a telescope there very slowly and get fuel efficiency..."

See, I don't pull this stuff out of my a...,
Ken

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