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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Space station?? How about other things too/first?
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Date: Tue, 15-May-84 13:21:38 EDT
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   Well, there will be "something up there" in the interim period, while
the space station is being designed. There are free-flyer version of 
Spacelab, for example, which are designed to be left on orbit for
a few months. There's the Long Duration Exposure Facility, ditto.
There have been other proposals from the European Space Agency, 
if I remember aright, for unmanned stations on a small scale, that'd
provide power/cooling/pointing/communications on a reusable basis,
in the near future.

-Kieran A. Carroll