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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher
I'm not quite sure what you are referring to, but I was responding to the existing stuff you mentioned in Earth orbit, and anything in a similar situation that would normally remain in Earth orbit.
For discarded items that are already headed for the moon. I would agree that deorbiting them to a common area on the moon makes sense. Even if theres no (near term) future practical use for it, at least it wouldn't be cluttering up many areas of the moon.
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When you send things to the moon, do you send them on a straight line from Earth or do you orbit the planet a few times before flinging off toward the moon?