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An Outpost Beyond the Moon
September 24, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

An article in the Orlando Sentinel reports that NASA is interested in building a space station at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 2 (a location where the gravitational pull of Earth and Moon are at equilibrium).


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