But you can't mine that from Earth's orbit, so why would there be space stations there?
I'm not sure if he meant the Earth's orbit around the Sun or a geocentric orbit. I assumed the latter, the moon is there and supposedly has a lot of helium-3.
Is it wrong to call a moon base a space station?
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