The Manned Orbital Factory or MOF is a variation of the Modular Unmanned Orbital Factory that would be intended to exploit the potential operation cost dividend enabled by future declining costs in manned spaceflight. Today the cost of manned spaceflight is so inordinately high that the normally impractical costs of automation become nominal compared to the cost of employing human labor in space. But there are, of course, limitations in the capability of automation, particularly in the area of self-maintenance and with the complication of teleoperation relying on ground-based technicians. As margins become nearer in orbital production, the scale of facilities larger, and the increasingly routine nature of space transport brings its costs down, long delays in production for the repair of sy