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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Shuttle Space to be Auctioned
Message-ID: <4091@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 08:04:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.4091
Posted: Fri Aug  2 08:04:50 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 05:29:52 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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President Reagan has ordered that NASA, beginning in fiscal
1988, auction cargo space on the shuttle to foreign and
commercial customers.  The minimum bid on a full payload
bay would be $74M; a shuttle flight costs $71M.  Three
shuttle equivalent payloads (1 SEP == 1 full payload bay)
are to be sold per year, and NASA is then allowed to sell
any remaining space.