They've never sought it out. There's no need for them to engage in international diplomacy, or international commerce. Their territories are split up in many instances, and their people aren't monoethnically indigenous. They consider themselves American, they are autonomous to the highest...
This is the correct answer. The movements pretty much petered out and died once they were seen as being "Pro-British" in a sense.
Source data that I've found seemed to indicate that this is what would happen. I'd be more than happy to cite this. I believe it was a US Government website...
The main issue here is that historically, there have been multiple stations, and several have been deorbited over time. Short-term missions are still common, ones that aren't permanent structures. It's common to test a new module for the larger stations in LEO for a couple months first, before...
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