Shuttle External Tanks

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Shuttle External Tanks

# 3024 byESchonert@... on June 15, 2002, midnight
Member since 2021-10-03

In Let's get a tank now (6-13) panamabob mentioned 16 ft diameter
but my NASA literature gave dimensions as 27.5 ft diameter
x 154.2 ft length x 73,861 lbs inert weight.

This sounds heavy enough for reuse & I could swear I read once
that NASA recovered them at sea with tugboats presumably for
reuse. Has anyone heard of NASA already reusing these tanks?

Ed S.