Opening to a short story set on a space station three-quarters of the way to the moon

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The shuttle from Halfway Station was exactly on time, and he marveled at the precision needed to do that. A quarter of the distance between the Earth and the moon, measured in thousands of miles or kilometers or whatever, and the shuttle docked at 4:32 a.m. Greenwich Time, just as the schedule indicated.

Only three people disembarked, and a couple dozen boarded. Not many people stopped at Station 3/4. Who wants to live, work or play three-quarters of the ...