Link External Tanks to Make Space Stations
With budget debates raging all over the United States, how can we, as citizens, allow our government to even consider the international space station, a $30-billion-lemon (“Down to Earth,” Jan. 7)?
There are alternatives. One that I support, and for which the plans have already been created, is Project Geode, which calls for using the space shuttle’s expended external fuel tanks to create a space station. Linking 12 of the tanks together would create a space station capable of holding 300 to 500 people. The cost would be about $10 billion.
PETER ROMERO
Director of Computer Science
Don Bosco Technical Institute
Rosemead
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