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In addition to holding the bulk of the cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for the Shuttle's 3 Main Engines, the Tank was also the load-bearing path between the two Solid Boosters and the Shuttle Orbiter. Which makes sense, the tank itself was no small thing and the boosters burned out and were jettisoned first. The Main Engines continued to burn fuel and oxidizer from the tank after the Boosters were gone, and the tank was then jettisoned before it got to orbit. The last hydrogen and oxygen for the main engines came from tanks inside the orbiter. So it was effectively a 1 2/3 stage system, the boosters being 1/3 stage, the tank being 1/3 stage and the Orbiter itself being one stage

The tank was strong enough that the two, 1 million pound, (450 megagrams) solid boosters lifted themselves, and the tank, and its contents, and all the structure that connected them, and the Shuttle Orbiter too, but only the Orbiter got high enough and fast enough to get into orbit. If the boosters had been tied to the Orbiter, the strong, heavy, connections would have to have gone into orbit and been carried back through reentry, or the connection piece would have been a fifth moving part that was jettisoned separately.
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Source Space Shuttle (STS) External-Tank-to-Solid-Booster or tank-to-Shuttle attachment DSC_0853
Author Bill Abbott
Camera location34° 00′ 59.24″ N, 118° 17′ 16.62″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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