>>11281684>outer hullYeah, about that. Anything doing "maintenance" on the outside of the hull is going to have to be tethered to it. You can't maintain an "orbit" around it because there's no gravity and you would have to be constantly thrusting to maintain the circular flight pattern.
>open airlock on outside of cylinder>walk outside with no tether>get launched into spaceFor the same reason, access airlocks/hatches are going to have to be on the axis ends. You can't orbit an O'Neill cylinder, but you can rotate along the same axis to match up with a hub dock. Beyond that, you could probably set up some parking spaces inside a mini cylinder hub, but you would want to tether a spacecraft before docking it, otherwise it would wreck everything inside. Seriously, rotating frames of reference are a mind fuck.
