Would a Space Station in Low Moon Orbit be feasible?
It’s actually really hard to get a stable lunar orbit. The reason is that the moon is of uneven density. The lower the orbit, the harder it is. It turns out we had our first sattelite orbit the moon for a long while only by luck. Only special orbits will be fairly stable, and the orbit of a space station (meant to last a while) would have to be adjusted frequently if we plan on having it pass over a specific region frequently. I’m not saying it’s impossible, since I don’t work for NASA. But low moon orbit below 100 miles is probably never going to happen, due to the impossibility of rescuing the station if its orbit changes more quickly than expected. You wouldn’t need a very strong ship to travel to the ISS and this LMO and back, because at either one you are pretty close to a place where you can escape the earth or the moon. The hard part is, creating a ship that is made to travel from space point to space point, which currently doesn’t exist.
