Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!bob
From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Aug 15 AW&ST
Message-ID: <776@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Sep 88 16:44:06 GMT
References: <1988Sep12.032459.25617@utzoo.uucp> <972@netxcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Organization: Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project
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In article <972@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
>In article <1988Sep12.032459.25617@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>No attempt would be made to recover Shuttle-C's SSMEs; they would be
>>SSMEs that are near the end of their rated lives as shuttle engines.
>
>... these engines could be recovered in orbit, for use in 'scooters'.

and this time NASA, if the Shuttle-C is goint to be mostly
expendable, build the space station resource nodes onto the
external tank and deliver the whole thing to orbit.

You double the useable volume of the space station in one go.

Use the empty tank as a large experimental chamber, as a
gymnasium, as a zero g garden, anything!

Maybe ESA could buy an external tank for this purpose.
Even better if it is the one on the shuttle-C delivering
Columbus to orbit. (if things ever get that far).
	Bob.