Feb 3 1987
From The Space Library
NASA issued a request for proposal to U.S. industry for a program support contractor to assist the NASA Space Station Program Office, in Washington, D.C., with development of the Space Station. (NASA Release 87-8)
NASA officials declared that Space Station deployment, scheduled for 1994, could be delayed up to two years or the Station could be scaled down. NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher said that the cost of the Space Station, once estimated at $8 billion, was now estimated at between $13 and $14.5 billion. Fletcher, who said that the United States was lagging behind the Soviet Union in human space flight, predicted that a U.S. crew-tended Space Station would help the country catch up to the Soviets. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, Dr. Fletcher stressed that the Space Station program retained high priority with the Reagan administration. (LA Times, Feb 4/87; USA Today, Feb 4/87; NY Times, Feb 5/8)
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