Asri-unix.1148
net.space
utzoo!decvax!cca!sri-unix!G.ROGER@MIT-EECS
Sun Apr  4 14:22:58 1982
Saving the shuttle external tank
From: Roger H. Goun <G.ROGER at MIT-EECS>
I heard Gerald K O'Neill (a major proponent of the High Frontier concept)
lecture at MIT last year.  The plan he outlined for the exploitation and
colonization of space depended on the use of the shuttle external tank as
building material.

As I recall, O'Neill claimed that the shuttle could place it's tank in LEO
at a loss of only 3% of it's cargo capacity.  Can anyone confirm or refute
this figure?

					-- Roger
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