gottlieb@alliant.UUCP (Bob Gottlieb) (03/13/86)
These statistics come from the folks in Aviation Week & Space Technology, and indicate the financial requests for FY87. Note that these figures do not reflect the loss of the Challenger. *** If you have no interest in reading numbers, type "n". *** Values in Millions of Dollars. NASA Space Station 410 Technology & Management Integration 203 System Definition 57 System Development (NEW) 150 Space Transportation 465 Spacelab 90 Upper Stages 85 Engineering & Technical Base 120 Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle 70 NASA Space Science Physics/Astronomy 367 Hubble Space Telescope 28 Gamma Ray Observatory 52 payload development/mission management 115 mission operations/data analysis 173 Planetary 258 Venus Radar Mapper 67 Mars Observer 63 mission operations/data analysis 130 Space Applications 506 Solid Earth observations 74 Environmental observations 368 Materials Processing in Space 44 Communications 20 Commercial Space Programs 45 Technology Utilization 13 Commercial Use of Space 32 Advanced Research 601 Aeronautical 376 Transatmospheric (TAV) (NEW) 45 Space Research & Technology 180 Space Shuttle Production/Operations 745 Orbiter 211 Launch & Mission Support 161 Propulsion Systems 338 Changes & Upgrades 35 Defense Department Space Operations 1449 FleetSatCom 77 RCA Defense Meteorological Sat. Program 83 GE Defense Sat. Comm. DSCS 137 Navstar GPS 174 Space Boosters 421 ASAT 322 Space Shuttle Ops, Boeing IUS purchase 235 Strategic Defense Initiative (ALL) 4813 -- -- Bob Gottlieb UUCP: ...!linus!alliant!gottlieb Mail: Alliant Computer Systems Corp, 42 Nagog Park, Acton, MA 01720 Phone: (617) 263-9110 Foot: "You can't get there from here". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't know what I'm doing, and Alliant isn't responsible either, so there!"