Space research station approved
NZPA-Reuter Washington President Reagan has approved development of a scaled-down manned
space research station to be placed in orbit in the mid-19905, says the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. The agency said that it expected the first phase of the station would provide a permanently manned research capability in 1996 for up to eight astronauts in rotating crews.
The station would include laboratory modules produced by the European Space Agency and
Japan and the first phase of a mobile servicing system provided by Canada, it said. The space agency said it would seek Congressional approval to ask the aerospace industry for proposals for design and development contracts. Its estimated cost was SUSIO.9 billion in 1984 dollars compared with an origianl estimate of SUSB billion, N.A.S.A. said. It said that a further SUSI. 3 billion would be needed
for preparatory engineering and support work over the next eight years at N.A.S.A.’s field centres.
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