Word: nasa
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...Florida, site of the launch. But just as Shuttle Commander Bob Crippen and his crew prepared to descend from orbit and end their seven-day, more-than-2 million-mile flight, storm clouds began gathering near Cape Canaveral, complicating Challenger's descent. The California touchdown will force NASA to transport Challenger back across the U.S. to Florida and will add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the mission. The trip across the continent will delay Shuttle Mission 12, scheduled for June 19, by a week or more...
...NASA'S carefully detailed script for the mission was showy but simple. Its highlight was to be a free-floating walk in space to retrieve the ailing Solar Maximum Mission satellite (Solar Max). Sent aloft to monitor the sun's activity, Max broke down three years ago, after only ten months in orbit. Challenger's mission last week was to stop the rotation of Max, use the spacecraft's 50-ft. remote-controlled arm to lift the satellite into the ship's cargo bay, and set it back in orbit after repairs were made...
...celestial service call, if successful, would mean a saving of $185 million over the cost of replacing Max. It would be a technical and psychological boost for NASA'S program of future maintenance on other orbiting machinery and a giant step toward fulfilling one of President Reagan's commitments: to construct a permanent U.S. space station by the early 1990s...
Before the center is built, however, NASA as well as University administrators must approve the plans...
...While a NASA official said that he could not speculate on the agency's future commitments, he added that Harvard and MIT have made large contributions to NASA programs and have gained a significant experience through previous projects...