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From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Shuttle External Tanks and Space Stations
Message-ID: <7681@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 21:58:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 21:58:21 1985
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In article <22000012@hpfcla.UUCP> ajs@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
>I agree, and offer this food for thought.  How do you suppose the design
>work on the space station might be affected if at this moment we already
>had 20+ external tanks waiting for us in some parking orbit?
>

I don't know how it would affect space station design, but if
they went back to painting them white and tied all of them into
a big bundle, it'd be a hell of a sight just after sunset.

Mike