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DBI is currently
working toward the construction of a full-sized wooden mock-up
to create exact CAD drawings. This mock-up will facilitate
the division of tasks among the subcontractors that can build
components of the actual craft.
Once all the analytical assessments have been finalized, DBI
plans to create a proposal for an outpost in LEO where the
Space Truck could shuttle fuel for storage, to be retrieved
at a different time by a Space Truck heading on a mission
beyond LEO. The company envisions servicing floating warehouses
of material and fuel in LEO, and periodic trips to service
the International Space Station or satellites in orbit.
In time, different Space Truck vehicles could be used as outposts
to hold food, water, fuel, oxygen, etc., to service long-term
moon exploration, and as a logical way to initiate meaningful
space exploration. (No different than the wagon trains that
crossed the U.S. in the early days.)
Additionally, the concept of an outpost is ancient - travelers
around the world relied upon them for centuries, and many
existed across the United States in 1700s and 1800s to offer
pioneers food and supplies as they crossed the continent.
Only now do we have the ability to use this early concept
of support, but now to achieve, gradually, commercially viable
space commercialization.
The initial plan involves a prototype, then two working orbiters.
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