SETI public: Using The Shuttles External Fuel Tank In Our Return to The Moon and Our Voyages To Mars and Beyond

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From: Alex Michael Bonnici (albonnici_at_vol.net.mt)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 14:03:01 PST

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    Hello Gang,
               As news comes in that the President will announce an
    ambitious new space program that will return the United States to the
    Moon and take us on to Mars, a venture that may have a huge price tag
    connected with it, I am left wondering why NASA never seriously
    considered the various proposals to use the shuttle's external tank (ET)
    as the building blocks in developing a permanent space station and
    cyclic spacecraft that would take us to the Moon, Mars, and perhaps to
    the Asteroid Belt, and Outer Solar System. Why wasn't this idea ever
    really given the attention it deserves? Looking at the proposals made by
    the Space Islands Group and various other companies and organizations
    this proposal seemed to have real possibilities.

    Alex Michael Bonnici

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