The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch

"We have a very strong incentive to send a crew as quickly as we can safely do so."

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[DistinctivelyCanuck]

It's funny that none of these companies ever mention whether or not "adult entertainment" plays an explicit role in their business plans. Because if we're behind honest, blackjack and hookers is probably where the money is.

hundred mile high club would probably make them a bunch of money too.

/s

 

[DistinctivelyCanuck]

I've always wondered this too.

I assume NASA, being full of smart people, there's a really good reason (maybe many) why not. But it would be interesting to know those reasons out of curiosity.

There's a video online that shows the overall assembly sequence of the space station over the decades:
to "ship of theseus" the ISS would be all but impossible because of the dependencies between components.
I mean, lets just pick a random thing: how do you replace one of the central pieces of the truss?
How do you replace the Unity node?
Replace Zarya?

MAYBE you can pick off pieces like Kibo or Columbus... but not a lot.

Here's another way of imagining this. Think of the ISS like a multi-story building.
In a multi-story building you can't just go "darn, the third floor just isn't quite what I wanted, I want to slide it out and put in a new third floor"
ISS: Same thing.


EDIT: pointer to the GIF in question:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/ISS-assembly-animation.gif

 

[DistinctivelyCanuck]

Microgravity plus the cardio effects of viagra plus the horrible physical conditioning of most billionaires makes it super risky for sex tourism; imagine the PR nightmare of a stiff Elon corpse with a stiffy bouncing off the walls of Haven 1 while NASA admins panic a la Death of Stalin.

shove the stiff out the airlock. Problem solved.
NEXT!

 

[DistinctivelyCanuck]

Ah, so The Expanse-like approach of some Belters.

The Expanse gets a lot of things depressingly correct LOL