I'm interested in knowing if in terms of cost/efficiency/quality would be better to grow crops(food) in Earth and then sending it to space habitats on orbit, or would it be better to grow them in those habitats?

However, there are some conditions that need to be taken into consideration:

You can freely recharge shuttles that come down, as there are large fuel storages available.

Food need to be grown on special greenhouses, because Earth's spinning speed is down 90% (this is an expansion of a previous question).

Let's say that a total of 25.000 people live in orbit.

I´m asking this mainly bacause since its possible to freely recharge the shuttles, it would be possible to transport a lot of soil to the space habitats. However, you would still need to have large rooms to house the crops, and everything else needed to keep production going.

So far, in this scenario, I think that the best option would be to come down, build the greenhouses, use automated caretakers to run and to harvest, then just come back down to collect the already stored goods.

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The concept is that on earth things are really rough, its a horrible place to live. Rich citizens, and others who could afford, stablished themselves on space habitats. Those habitats are amazing and offer all the luxury they need. People are sent down (to Earth) as a punishment for crimes and such.

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