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Subject: Space Station
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Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 17:41:11 EST
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     In an interview with WPRB radio station here, representative Don Fuqua
(chairman of the House committee on Science & Technology, which oversees
space programs) has said that "reliable information" he has indicates
that the president is planning "to include funding for, and a commitment
to" a permantently manned space station in low Earth orbit in the fiscal
1985 budget.  The figure he quoted was $200 million for the initial year, 
going up in successive years.
     NASA administrator Dr. James Beggs, who we interviewed for the same
radio program, was not as definite about this.  Fuqua did not give a
date for when this decision would be announced.  Fuqua made his statement
just over two weeks ago.

					 Karl Stapelfeldt
					 Frank Lemoine
					 WPRB news & Princeton SEDS