re: #59 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There isn’t a vehicle to carry hoomans and fuel to L2. There won’t be any in 10 years, none on the drawing boards.

JWST has to get far enough away from the Earth to avoid Earth’s own IR emissions, to say nothing of the (extremely rarified) gas and dust that the Earth-moon system traps.

So it’s a one-way trip.

Let’s hope it works upon arrival.

Thinking semi-autonomous bots for the trip. We have a lot of time invested in Webb, and it might be cool to do interferometry with a Webb II. Perhaps by then someone will have something big on the Moon.