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RE: [TAC] (meteorobs) Space Station
I thought you might be interested in this post I saw on the Meteor email
group.
Enjoy!
Sandra
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> From: Mark Davis[SMTP:MeteorObs@Charlestondot net]
> Reply To: meteorobs@latrade.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 1998 7:11 PM
> To: meteorobs@latrade.com
> Subject: (meteorobs) Space Station
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> ................................................................
> Michael Braukus
> Headquarters, Washington, DC January 29, 1998
> (Phone: 202/358-1979)
>
> Susan Povenmire
> U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
> (Phone: 202/647-3486)
>
> RELEASE: 98-17
>
> SPACE STATION AGREEMENTS TO BE SIGNED IN WASHINGTON
>
> Today marks an important milestone for the International
> Space Station as senior government officials from 15 countries
> meet in Washington to sign agreements to establish the framework
> for cooperation among the partners on the design, development,
> operation and utilization of the Space Station.
>
> Acting Secretary of State Strobe Talbott will sign the
> 1998 Intergovernmental Agreement on Space Station Cooperation,
> along with representatives of Russia, Japan, Canada and
> participating countries of the European Space Agency (Belgium,
> Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain,
> Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom). The signing will be
> held at the U.S. State Department's Dean Acheson auditorium at 4
> p.m. EST.
>
> Three bilateral memoranda of understanding also will be
> signed by NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin separately with his
> counterparts: Russian Space Agency General Director Yuri Koptev,
> ESA Director General Antonio Rodota and Canadian Space Agency
> President William (Mac) Evans. The memorandum of understanding
> between NASA and the government of Japan will be signed at a later
> date.
>
> Today's new agreements supersede previous Space Station
> agreements among the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada signed in
> 1988. These new agreements reflect changes to the Space Station
> program resulting from significant Russian participation in the
> program and program design changes undertaken by the original
> partnership in 1993.
>
> Led by the U.S., the International Space Station will be
> the largest, most complex international cooperative science and
> engineering program ever attempted. Taking advantage of the
> technical expertise from participating countries, the
> International Space Station will bring together scientists,
> engineers and researchers from around the globe to assemble a
> premier research facility in orbit.
>
> Beginning in June 1998, with the launch of the first
> Space Station element, the partnership will ultimately assemble
> more than 100 components in low Earth orbit over the next five
> years, using approximately 45 assembly flights. When completed,
> the Station will provide access for researchers around the world
> to permanent, state-of-the-art laboratories in weightlessness.
>
> As currently envisioned, the International Space Station
> will support a crew of up to seven and include five complete
> pressurized laboratories and attached external sites for research.
> The Station will provide a focal point for space operations among
> the partners well into the next century, and will serve as a
> stepping-stone for human exploration of the solar system. On the
> football-field-sized station, permanent crews will perform long-
> duration research in a variety of scientific disciplines advancing
> the world's understanding of life sciences, earth sciences and
> materials processing, while fostering commercial research
> activities in space.
>
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