alb@brunix.UUCP (Adam Buchsbaum) (02/04/85)
In President Reagan's proposed budget, he asks for $25 million dollars to begin design work on an Orbiting Maneuvering Vehicle, which would initially be deployed from the space shuttle, remotely guided to high orbit satellites, and then brought back to the shuttle, towing the satellites with it (or sending them back into high orbit). The total cost is estimated to eventually approach $375 million. The vehicle would be unmanned and later would stay in low Earth orbit. Also in NASA's budget is $120 million for space shuttle space parts, $850 million for orbiter work, including improved main engines, $230 million (up from $155 million) for the space station project, and $168 million for the launches of the space telescope and Galileo probe to Jupiter.