--- description: Making space habitats out of old rocket fuel tanks, the real source of America's economic fears and more. title: How to Recycle a Rocket Fuel Tank image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How to Recycle a Rocket Fuel Tank by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 22, 2016 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 22, 2016 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Don’t throw out that used rocket fuel tank. Make it into a space habitat.**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/nasa-funds-partnership-to-explore-making-space-habitats-out-of-used-rocket-fuel-tanks "undefined") By Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum **2\.** [**Economic fears aren’t driving racial resentment. Racial resentment is driving economic fear.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/08/22/economic-anxiety-isnt-driving-racial-resentment-racial-resentment-is-driving-economic-anxiety/ "undefined") By Michael Tesler in the Washington Post **3\.** [**America’s schools need teacher diversity. Here’s why.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2016/08/19/the-many-ways-teacher-diversity-may-benefit-students/ "undefined") By Anna J. Egalite and Brian Kisida at the Brown Center Chalkboard **4\.** [**Has technology destroyed the romance of art history?**](https://aeon.co/ideas/does-technological-analysis-destroy-the-romance-of-art-history "undefined") By Noah Charney in Aeon **5\.** [**Artificial intelligence can give every doctor a lifetime of experience — instantly.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/how-machine-learning-could-help-burn-victims-recover-faster/495926/ "undefined") By Adrienne LaFrance in the Atlantic  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4461113/how-to-recycle-a-rocket-fuel-tank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4461113/how-to-recycle-a-rocket-fuel-tank/"},"headline":"How to Recycle a Rocket Fuel Tank","datePublished":"2016-08-22T16:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:35.138Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4461113/how-to-recycle-a-rocket-fuel-tank/","keywords":["Innovation","Space","Technology","Race","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4461113/how-to-recycle-a-rocket-fuel-tank/","name":"How to Recycle a Rocket Fuel Tank"}}]}] ```