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Subject: External tanks
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Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 10:08:36 EST
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> "Now if we had something useful to do with all of those ETs..."

The ET's are designed to break up for the reason of allievating the 
orbital junk.  There was a plan, killed for lack of funding, to add
fuel tanks to the cargo bay and boost the ET's into LEO (Low Earth 
Orbit) for use as materials in building a space station.  Haven't 
heard much about that recently, though.

Dave McAllister
Digital Equipment Corp @ NASA/Johnson Space Center
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"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."  The Doctor