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ing space business they feel sure is
coming.
The idea is to start off with an
assembly put together from cylin
drical modules hauled into orbit on
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five flights of the new space shuttle
rocket plane.
Engineers then would add other
components as necessary, prob
ably starting off with a construction
facility from which space workers
would be able to build large struc
tures such as an Earth-serving
communications relay platform.
The proposed "space operations
center,” to house eight people at
first, would be a far cry from the old
Skylab space station in which three
Americans lived and worked for up
to 84 days. Skylab was an orbiting
financial commitment
White House and
“I think there’s a general®
sus within NASA now thattl
probably the next big tL
ought to do,” Covingtonsaii
But although Frosch
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come a necessity, he says aw
of years of actual operations i ®ACA
the shuttle are needed bet*
firm plan can be drawn upf* 'OWN I
The space operations
center is now in the
tentative study stage
with the National
Aeronautics and
Space Administration
spending $500,000
this year on the effort.
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laboratory; the operations center
would be used to assemble, check
out and maintain satellites and ser
vice and launch manned and un
manned spacecraft.
"It’s operations-oriented rather
than just putting people up there
for a long time to do some experi
ments,” said Clarke Covington,
head of systems design at the John
son Space Center. “It’s to do some
fruitful work that has a payback. ”
But he said in an interview one of
the problems in getting such a pro
ject off the ground is developing a
list of specific, proven jobs that
would require an operations sta
tion in orbit.
“We’re sort of in the position we
were back in the early ‘70s when
we were trying to justify the shut
tle,” Covington said. Some of the
missions proposed for the shuttle
then have not developed, but other
unexpected jobs have come along
and the orbital transport is booked
through 1985.
“We do think, of all the things
we’ve studied, that there does
seem to be a real need out there to
construct some big things,” he
said. “We think that it ought to
show an economic payoff. ”
The space operations center is now
in the tentative study stage with
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration spending
$500,000 this year on the effort.
NASA administrator Robert
Frosch says the concept is “fer
menting.”
To become a full-fledged project,
it first has to have the OK from
NASA management and then a
space base.
“It’s hard to sell anybodyom
lion dollar space station
you’re being speculativeab
what it’s good for,” Froschsai
an interview in Washington,
He said the space shuttlefinl n
to prove itself. Its initial oil ern
flight test is more than twoy CATHC
behind schedule, and is now
doled for next March.
“It’s been hard for metal*
vinced that I could go andn
sale on such a thing on arela
speculative basis when tht m
thing that would have tobesaiBnn/j
me was, ‘Well, you guys getM :
shuttle flying and then welB
about building things oniB
Frosch said.
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Adding to the interest forai
American space station isi
Soviet Union’s steady progres
ward a permanent station in «i
Two Russians recently seta|
day space endurance recordiii
Salyut station and there have E to fade
reports that the Soviets are]! | oner oi
ning a large, 12-man statioi
launch later this decade.
Frosch said it appears the Son lj n g j ntl
will continue to expand theirqmjpg (] u
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shuttle and then lelf
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current designs to eventually
struct a station able to support!
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two within five to 10 yean,
If NASA were to receive li
ahead with the appropriatehiK
in 1983, Covington said the
space operations center coi
up and working in 1987. A
likely plan, however, would
the project in 1985 and have
operation by 1990. lagreeda
Covington estimated that diet |ning to p;
five-module space operations11 cleanup
ter would cost $2 billion in ienwllite th
1979 dollars. He said a conslftiwest
tion facility would add at least
million to the price. Rnadian
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