A low earth orbit, like the current space station, has roughly half the sky blocked out by earth plus the magnetic field of earth to somewhat protect it. Gettin

A low earth orbit, like the current space station, has roughly half the sky blocked out by earth plus the magnetic field of earth to somewhat protect it. Getting to the lunar gateway's weird orbit, if you were already on the moon, could take several days versus less delta-v to just go to low earth orbit which can be done at any time.