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The biggest roadblock for that happening is the gigantic expense it would require to send astronauts in rockets up to dismantle the entire station and then return the pieces back down using methods that reduce damage to the pieces as much as possible. Offhand guess would be $500 billion.
Just ship the tourists up to the ISS. Probably cheaper
NASA could AirBnB it and finance space exploration that way. Genius.
They already do this. https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-nasa-is-renting-the-international-space-station-for-dirt-cheap/
The biggest roadblock would be agreeing who pays for it and where it will be located.
Earth, and Earth.