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>>14878683
Count three, I love the idea of a lunar space station, its a new deep space platform for humanity, it enables staging lunar sorties and expeditions and gives them a common focal point, makes it politically unkillable just like ISS was ensuring NASA's foothold in cis-lunar and lunar surface.

Gateway will turn out to be a much better decision than committing to lunar surface base only, just wait, it will turn out to be the smartest decision NASA's made in years. Also its orbit is changeable potentially with its SEP system, so NRHO is not even the only thing it might do. NASA will find a way to get every possible science use out of Gateway they can too so look forward to cool shit there like AMS on ISS

Imagine looking out at the moon every night knowing there's a space station orbiting there, that's gotta give you chills & make you proud of humanity and NASA.