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While true, and I see your point, it's also worth pointing out: the ISS doesn't need to make any trips back down again.

This is a re-usable spaceship, albeit one humans don't get to ride in.




The ISS problem is arguably harder. It doesn't need to survive reentry but you also can't take the whole thing apart, clean it, and put it back together again in a nice climate-controlled machine shop. You have to do it in cramped zero-gravity and keep most of the systems online while you're doing it.




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