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>>12405473
This, just build an inflatable balloon station around a cylindrical steel framework with an extremely cramped Soyuz style reentry capsule that has just enough propellant to deorbit itself over a chosen state, say Texas or Nevada.
Make it big enough for two or three people to live relatively comfortably for like a month or two as proof of concept, send them home safely, start picking up fat checks to send up more and better stations.
You could probably do it with less than a ten million dollar budget, but that would be fucking tiny for a space project involving sending people to actually live in space for significant periods of time.
Consider that Copenhagen Suborbital's tiny Spica rocket will probably only cost a total of maybe two million US from development to launch, budget five minimum for the station with room to expand to eight if necessary and another two to buy a Starship launch.