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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: LEO habitat ideas...
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 16:40:46 EST
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> 
> 	Does anybody have any data regarding the weights and measures of
> a Saturn V rocket? I have a pet project I have been kicking around in my
> head for a while.
> 
> 	I presume(probably wrong) that some of the booster sections of
> the saturn V rocket are still kicking around in mothballs.
> 

I think you're wrong - but there is a functional equivalent, and there's 
lots of them.  The shuttle external tank.  It turns out that you can
take the tank into low Earth orbit and GAIN payload mass (about 2000 lb
I think).  This is due to the manuvering necessary to land the tank
in an ocean rather than on some unsuspecting city.  The tank is very
large and quite air tight.  There have been some studies on using tanks
and even some space station proposals using them.  The problem, of course,
is that you need manufacturing capability to turn the tanks into anything
useful.  I.e., you need the space station before you can make
extensive use of the tanks.