U.S. DOUBT VOICED ON SPACE STATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 16, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Study Sees NO Need for- . ostl ~?'~ r .
tern that a space station project mighE
Science Research Mission drain ?hvm space science
projects, as the shuttle program did. If
the station is built, -additional funds
In the Next 2 Decades should be allocated for scientific work
WASHINGTON, 15 (A -Tbe developing a 10w-orbit r -----' -~
United State3 Will Doct need an ?e . Mr. Beggs said in July that the agency
she manned space station.for ecie - would request== million in its budget
tifc research in the neat two decades for the fiscal year-1995 to start the
but suchaatation could-eveanially.be Project.
Acad,may ofSydeg acas p ato e4eruestions have been raised,
, , about what'ses could be found t
dvises
7bescademy's SpaceScieace Board, fora space station.-
itireportsTeleased Wednesday,-toid the David A. Stockman
nageme diiector of the
National Aeronauti cs,_im Space Ad- Office -of Management and Budget,
ministration -that space. shuttles and who has s said he opposes the station -
their- facet -mckets? could perform project for cost reasons, is considered.
high-priority space science missions in the biggest obstacle to its approval.
the 1980'saad1990's: a ssa} .,. _:,.~ NASA estimates.a space station de.
signed "Our finding is that present systems signed to be operational by 1991 would
are adequate . to these aeds," said cost from $B billion to $8 billion. The
agency Thomas M. Donahue, the board -chair- station ea that envisions be orb it a tbit a outset
man, in a letter to NASA's Administra. mite e in obout 230
b earth.
the earth.
tom, James Beggs- "Therefore,-on the s above would
issue of meeting the needs of space sd- Mr.. Beggs says the United States
the ust build a space station to follow up
tone, our recommendation world be to m
.use -the space shuttle. together with Soviet space Union is shuttle muter because the
requisite upper stages, maneuvering S committed to having an'
and fl pr on systems for missi aperatiorial station is orbit by 1995.:
during this ry.%e.... - ,
assigned to ii, tbegroctfl added-
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