[Or do we also install a machine shop, stockroom and parts room, drill
presses, soldering irons, selection of ICs and photodetectors, test and
calibration equipment, all that stuff up there in the ISS, and let the
astronauts do all the design and assembly of their instruments once they
get up there?]

The further we are from Earth, the more we'll need to do this very thing.

Jose
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