Reply to post: "... and the months and years tick by"

NASA tried turning lost spacecraft STEREO-B off and on again... but it didn't work. True story

Crazy Operations Guy

"... and the months and years tick by"

It'd only take a year at most, the worst case would be to maintain your station and wait for earth to come back to you.

That's an experiment I've always wanted to do: Build a space station just outside of earth's gravity well with enough supplies and fuel to maintain position (relative to the sun) and wait for earth to come back around. It'd make for a pretty good experiment to test endurance for a Mars-shot and to test the psychological effects of actually being cut off from communication with Earth for some time (rather than just "don't call us for a while or the experiment will be failure").

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