Changing docks on the ISS - GIF

Changing docks on the International Space Station.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...336#post192463
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...187#post157770
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...298#post135015
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...387#post173377
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...8884#post88243

Its going to be a shame to see that thing reenter the atmosphere in a few more years

Yes, it will be a shame when it ends. I hardly miss watching it go overhead when it passes here.

I keep hoping one of the big bucks' guys will see the monetary value of it and begin gently nudging it into a higher and more elliptical orbit with each resupply mission Perhaps even begin reconfiguring the placement of the modules and arrays while adding new ones eventually the Iss could serve as a way station repair and assembly faciality or a platform for launching probes or passenger and cargo carrying ships to the moon and beyond

Most of it needs replacing pretty soon. But with some actual cost to orbit competition that may not be mission impossible. Musk's BFR could lift that stuff up pretty rapidly.