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Old March 9th 07, 11:05 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy,sci.space.station,sci.space.shuttle
Pat Flannery
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kT wrote:


What the **** are you gonna do with it, let it drift until it explodes?



What are you going to do with it?
1.) Make a space station module out of it?
2.) Refuel it and use it to go somewhere?
3.) Cut it up and use the pieces?
Because that's about the limits of what it's good for.
The ET has the foam on it, and one of the things that mitigated against
its use as a space station module is that the foam is going to start to
debond after a while in space, as it wasn't designed to take the solar
radiation and atomic oxygen.

Pat