| Title: | Space Exploration |
| Notice: | Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6 |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 974 |
| Total number of notes: | 18843 |
Well, according to what I just heard on CNN:
NASA is now proposing a space station at half-price. It is now
bare-bones. $10.1B is the new cost. They were afraid that the
full $20B station could run into funding problems.
The new station cannot look at the stars.
It cannot look at the sun.
It will have barely enough power to keep itself alive.
I don't know of anymore restrictions or if they are leaving the
way open for future expansion.
By the way, construction is now slated to start in 1994, 2 years
later than originally planned.
When is Congress going to open their eyes?
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| 278.1 | Darth Ronnie? | EDEN::KLAES | Is that Nancy, Doctor? | Tue Apr 07 1987 09:26 | 11 |
I have also heard that they are trying to turn it into a military
space outpost, along the lines of the SDI program.
I can just see Ronnie in a black cape saying stuff like "This
armed and fully operational battlestation..." and "Fire at will
commander!" and "This battlestation is the ultimate power in the
Universe!" Wait, what's that other station approaching, the one
with the red flag painted on it....
Larry
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| 278.2 | ESA getting ready to bail out | EUCLID::PAULHUS | Chris @ MLO 8-3/T13 dtn 223-6871 | Tue Apr 07 1987 11:04 | 2 |
And AW&ST says that the Europeans are planning their own station,
as a fall back position, if the US keeps up this nonsense. - Chris
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| 278.3 | Stuff the military | JANUS::BARKER | Tue Apr 07 1987 14:27 | 9 | |
> And AW&ST says that the Europeans are planning their own station, > as a fall back position, if the US keeps up this nonsense. - Chris I expect that the Japanese will join us in Europe. If the military wants a space station let them do it themselves - after all NASA is a civilian agency. Unfortunately they let the shuttle be hijacked so I guess they see it as a natural progression. jb | |||||