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From: sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Kenneth Charles Sheppardson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Long duration shuttle?
Message-ID: <403866ac.298d@dl298d.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 88 00:40:00 GMT
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Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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rcj@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Robert Johnson) writes:
> 
> I was just sitting around the other day, beeing generally depressed that
> it would take 10-15 years to get a space station up,...Is there any way to 
> load the shuttle up with a lab module and more stores than usual and have 
> it sit up there for 90 days or so?

Isn't that basically what Phase A is going to be ? ( Once you add solar 
arrays, a docking port, apu's, the necessary shielding, etc )