LIGHTWEIGHT SHUTTLE TANK
Work has started on the first Space Shuttle external tank crafted from aluminum lithium alloy to save weight. Terry L. Hibbard, super lightweight tank program manager at Lockheed Martin Manned Space Systems in New Orleans, said in Washington recently that the first of 25 of the tanks NASA is buying...
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