why the international space station isn’t high up in the orbit at least at a few 1000s miles away, not the 250 it’s right now?

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why the international space station isn’t high up in the orbit at least at a few 1000s miles away, not the 250 it’s right now?

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The space shuttle was only designed to go to low Earth orbit. If it was higher up, Nasa wouldn’t have been able to send astronauts up there without designing a new rocket.

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