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 ...NEWS ANALYSIS
HANGING ON TO FREEDOM
President Clinton has ordered NASA to re-design the Freedom Space Station — yet again —
but it may be too late to save the project from eventual extinction.
In ...
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 ...Last April, NASA delivered to the US Congress a "restructuring report" outlining an extensive redesign oi the Freedom space station. In an
effort to reduce costs and to win a budget
to get Freedom a...
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 ...TECHNICAL: SPACEFLIGHT
NASA cuts Freedom programme
BY TIM FURNISS
Laboratory support services and 4 user equipment aboard the
US elements of the Freedom
Space Station have been reduced
or elimin...
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 ...Freedom would have had a flight robotic
servicer, externally mounted science observ
ing instruments, external servicing areas for
the maintenance of satellites and other
equipment, plus a mobile s...
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 ...NEWS ANALYSIS
FREEDOM FRUSTRATION
BY TIM FURNISS
IN WASHINGTON
Relations between NASA and .its international Space
Station partners have been
strained by the US space agency's
unilateral decisi...
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 ...TECHNICAL: SPACEFLIGHT
Freedom milestones: 1995 first element launch . .. Assembly Flight 4 and man-tended capability .
NASA will maintain Freedom assembly
BY TIM FURNISS
NASA's new Space Station ...
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 ...TECHNICAL: SPACEFLIGHT
Freedom spacewalks
'unacceptable': NASA
Soviets axe nuclear
The Soviet nuclear-powered radar ocean reconnaissance
satellite (RORSAT) programme
may have been cancelled afte...
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 ...I urope's goal of establish
ing a permanently man
ned, autonomous space
station in orbit by 2010, using
elements developed for the
Columbus programme—
Europe's contribution to the US
internatio...
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 ...at around $ 15 billion for the US contribution
alone? Will the Space Shuttle be able to meet
the Freedom assembly schedule? Finally, to
what extent will Nasa be forced to rely on
expendable booste...
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 ...Canadarm, the NASA Space Shuttle's re
mote manipulator system (RMS) or robot
arm. The 400kg, 50m-long, graphite-
epoxy RMS has been flown on the major
ity of the 53 Shuttle missions launched so
fa...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
NASA fights to save its Freedom
BY TIM FURN1SS
NASA presented four design options for the new con
figuration of the Space Station
Freedom to the White House on
10 June. It believes t...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
CIA clears spy
images sales
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is to allow
US defence contractors to sell
reconnaissance-quality spy-
satellite images and systems as
they bid f...
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 ...—40% shorter than the original de
sign. This allows it to be outfitted and
tested on the ground before launch.
The module will hold 24 2.43m-wide
racks, 15 of which will be devoted to
scientific ...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Man-tended Freedom
assembly is delayed
BY TIM FURN1SS
The Space Shuttle mission to assemble parts of Space Sta
tion Freedom to enable it to
reach man-tended capability has
been dela...
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 ...man-Russian co-opera
tive programmes have
been "disappointing",
yielding little in results.
This is mainly, it ap
pears, because of the
cultural differences and
the fact that Russia is in
unde...
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 ...OPERATIONS: SPACE
High-level support for US lunar base
ts to adjust to extra-terrestrial conditit
US Vice-President Dan Quayle, chairman of the
National Space Commission,
supports NASA's proposed...
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 ...HEADLINES
Fleet numbers will be cut in new TWA rescue
TWA submits five-year
re-organisation plan
Trans World Airlines (TWA) has submitted a re-organ
isation plan to the bankruptcy
court which, i...
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 ...OPERATIONS: SPACEFLIGHT
NASA presents new
Freedom redesign
BY TIM FURNISS
NASA's restructured Freedom Space Station was pre
sented to Congress on 21 March
in the hope that the cheaper,
smaller ...
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 ...TECHNICAL: SPACEFLIGHT
Flight 11 brings permanently manned capability . Flight 10 in 1999 and Freedom assembly is complete
schedule
1996, will provide man-tended
capability. The added structure
w...
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