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NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, January 27, 1984
Space station will star in NASA design plans
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By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will spend the next two years designing the permanent space station that President Reagan wants for the early 1990s. NASA officials said yesterday.
"We want to do this project right," said Administrator James Beggs, noting the space shuttle began flying on its own schedule. It also cost more than planned.
John Hodge, head of the NASA space station task force, said the goals were to minimize the technological risks, to increase the onsite response on schedule and hold the costs down.
Beggs said it was too early to say when the $8 billion space station would be in operation a few hundred miles from Earth. He said when a schedule was set, NASA would want to be able to meet it.
"WE FEEL FROM our studies to date that an early '90s date is possible and in the cards and what I think we'll be working towards," he said at a news conference set up by the White House. Beggs told Congress last November that such a station could be ready in 1992.
Hodge said from what was known so far, the continuously manned space station was likely to consist of four manned modules, two large automated instruments and a robotic system to generate a considerable amount of electricity. He said there
also would be a space tug to shuttle back and forth between manned and unmanned components.
The crew of six to eight men and women will stay up for three to six months at a time. Rotating crews will keep the station occupied continuously.
IN ADDITION TO living quarters, the space base will have a utility module to handle power, environmental control and data processing operations, a module to serve as a dock for airline carry flights, and laboratory modules.
The Defense Department says it has no interest in a space station, but use of the station by the "national security community" will be possible, Beggs said. All money, however, is planned to come from the NASA budget.
The Soviet Union now has a space station in orbit, but it is not manned. However, the Soviets have said they too may be moving momentarily occupied stations in the future.
The United States was a decade ahead of the Soviets in space station technology, Beggs said."I think with this initiative the president has announced, we will remain a decade ahead of them."
The NASA administrator said Reagan's plan "will maintain United States' leadership in space well into the 21st century.
Beggs said the project would be directed either by the Johnson Space Center in Houston or the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
WASHINGTON - This artist's drawing of a U.S.-manned space station shows a base structure consisting of a number of modules clustered with large wing-like solar panels. President Reagan requested such a station in his State of the Union address Wednesday.
Senate votes to eliminate its pay raise
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate, not without a fight, voted yesterday to kill an election-year pay raise of $2,443 that all members of Congress began re-agreed to.
The legislation passed 66-19 in the Senate, where nearly a third of the members are facing re-election, and was sent to the House. Prospects for passage are also good in the House. The senate will allow members face campaigns this year.
The measure cleared the Senate after multimillionaire Sen. Howard Metz benraham, D-Ohio, charged some of the repeal supporters with a lack of "courage" and said, "I don't know if their victory is not shallow."
Metzbenham directed his attack on Sens. Don Nickles, R-Oki, and Jake Garn, R-Utah, calling "unadulterated malarky" their claim that calling off the pay raise would help balance the budget.
Metzenbaum suggested that the sponsors fight as hard for closing tax loopholes, cutting the defense budget and putting a ban on honoraria.
Early last year, the Senate raised the pay of its members from $26,600 to $69,800 and imposed a cap of 30 percent of salary on honoraria.
The 3.5 percent pay raise, which went into effect Jan. 1, raised the salaries of members of Congress from $69,800 to $72,243
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