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Home > Space Colonization > The Plan > Phase 3 : Space Stations and Satellites 
Space Stations and Satellites  International Space Station (ISS), credit: image by NASA, source: http://www.nasa.gov  Thus having a safe and economical way to get to space, we can start building space stations in low Earth orbit. The ISS is such a space station, but unfortunately it relies on an expensive and unsafe mean of transport. This is why its growth is that slow.
With the technology described in phase 2 we could build dozens of much bigger space stations for the same cost.  
 Galactic Suite Space Hotel, credit: Galactic Suite, source: http://www.galacticsuite.com In this way, space tourism would become a dynamically developing sector of the economy with the emergence of space hotels. 
  Bigelow Space Hotel, credit: Bigelow Aerospace, source: http://www.bigelowaerospace.com But all the debris accumulated in the low Earth orbit since the dawn of the space age could become a serious threat to these space hotels. These debris could become raw materials for future space factories.  Credit: Science Daily, source: http://www.sciencedaily.com It would also be a good idea to have a network of orbiting space telescopes to have an eye on the Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in order to warn in time in case of an object in a collision course.  News from Orbit Have an opinion? Voice it on our Forum.
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