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Aalice.481 net.columbia utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!mhuxt!eagle!wheps!zeppo!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Wed Mar 31 17:47:06 1982 Space Station With STS-3 now over (though the scientific data will take a year or more to fully analyze), NASA is wrapping up a proposal to the White House for a manned space station by the end of this decade. Working with the DoD and Pentagon, NASA hopes to establish a permanent presence, at first both military and civilian together, in space. They hope to start with a 3 man module and expand that into a 20 man station. The USSR is shooting for a 12 to 14 man station by 1985. NASA is considering a joint venture with Japan and the ESA, but nothing is definite yet.

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