Re: General Products Spaceships coming to a launchpad near you?




Tux Wonder-Dog wrote:
> I got this in my latest NASA email-list:
>
> Plastic Spaceships
> Date: Today 07:54:02
> From: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NASA Science News for August 25, 2005
>
> After reading this article, you might never look at trash bags the same way
> again. A new material called "RXF1" derived from the plastic of ordinary
> household trash bags could help protect astronauts from space radiation en
> route to Mars.
>
> FULL STORY at
>
> http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/25aug_plasticspaceships.htm?list58998

3 times the tensile strength of Aluminum... they just HAVE to call it
"Plasteel".

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