Comment by dev1ycan

First of all, yes I know about the elevator hence why I mentioned it, you know, first of all it's not that safe to be going down an elevator from what is basically a multiple stories high building while in space (#1) and (#2) why would you add complexity/failure points on purpose if your mission was being multiplanetary?

The spacecraft wasn't designed with humans in mind first.

And second:

This is a paper by Kessler himself:

https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/3...