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Article: `Star wars' perils space station
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 1, 1987
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WASHINGTON President Reagan's preoccupation with "star wars"
and the apparently inevitable militarization of outer space is
threatening his other high-priority, high-tech dream: a space
station.
Called into being three years ago in Reagan's 1984 State of the
Union message, the space station already was in trouble by the end of
1986 because of cost overruns and delays caused by the loss of the
shuttle Challenger. Of late, it has acquired a wry nickname: "The
Incredible Shrinking Space Station."
But until December, it was taken for granted that somehow,
sometime, in some form and at some cost far above the original
estimate of $8 billion, the station would fly as an international ...