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sidewndr46yesterday at 5:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Why would we? More importantly, why would anyone go to orbit period when you can do it with a robot.


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GlenTheMachineyesterday at 6:43 PM

You wouldn't. Ionizing radiation at GEO altitude quickly exceeds your lifetime exposure dose.

The Apollo (and Artemis II) astronauts went through GEO inside a metal capsule going as fast as they could.

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