Architects of the International Space Station (ISS), the largest space structure ever built, tackled a similar packing problem using multiple smaller spacecraft which connect, like space Ikea, into a structure greater than its parts. Space station R&D was one of the more active areas at Langley as NASA was unclear about the appropriate path to the moon and an orbiting station seemed like an appropriate precursor to crewed lunar and solar system exploration. But this needs artificial gravity space stations that weave perfectly into the new tapestry for space exploration being stitched by Starship; this successor to the Saturn V needs space station engineering as ambitious as Langley’s in the 1960s to accompany it.