TransAstra proposes to shift 100 tonnes of rock from near-Earth space to Earth space (or Lunar).
ToughSF prefers this over sending humans over to the rocks. Longterm I agree. What's a Bennu orbit compared to a planetary orbit, or a Lagrangian or even the 13:10:8 Laplacian? People should live on natural ports-of-call.
And some of those rocks are eminently movable. 740 missions by such robots and they could disassemble all Bennu, or at least the parts colonists want; and bring its pieces to, oh, STL4 or to a soft landing on the Lunar equator. In the other direction Casey Handmer can yeet Lunar regolith and maybe even Lunar-assembled critical parts - somehow; and catch them at TLL2.
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