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Aalice.223 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb Fri Dec 11 20:05:44 1981 Space Lab and Budget Cuts The first Space Lab, furnished by the ESA and built by ERNO, near Hanover, West Germany, arrived today at Cape Canaveral. Its first orbit is scheduled on the ninth shuttle flight [I'm not sure if that includes the first four test flights or not], scheduled for sometime in 1983. NASA has ordered another $150 million Lab to be built in 1984.

It is designed to give scientists a pressurized cabin in which they can work in a shirt sleeve environment. It will be kept in the shuttle's cargo bay.

------------------------- In the House-Senate military construction bill, there is only $2 million, as opposed to the original $9 million, set aside for facilities at Vandenburg Air Force Base, a future launch site for military shuttle flights. Senate members have asked that the project be reviewed as there are reports that the original projected cost of $300 million could double before completion.

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