From BARRY GRAY
Re: ‘Alloy takes the shuttle to a higher plane’ (Technology, 19 March).
Wrong. The external fuel tank is not recovered. It either burns up in the
atmosphere or crashes into the Indian Ocean. It is the solid fuelled rocket
boosters that are recovered in the Atlantic. These are the ones you see
on TV dramatically deploying from the shuttle.
Barry Gray Wirral, Merseyside
