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by westurner 534 days ago
Thanks for the research.

How are any lunar orbital trajectories relatively safe given the same risks to all crafts at such altitudes?

Is it mass or thrust, or failure to plan something better than inconsiderately decommissioning into the atmosphere and ocean.

If there are escape windows to the moon for other programs, how are there no escape windows to the moon for the ISS?

Given the standing risks of existing orbital debris and higher-altitude orbits' lack of shielding, are NEO impact collisions with e.g. hypersonic glide delivery vehicles advisable methods for NEO avoidance?

The NEO avoidance need is still to safely rendezvous and shove things headed for earth orbit into a different trajectory;

Is there a better plan than blowing a NEO up into fragments still headed for earth, like rendezvousing and shoving to the side?