May 16 1984
From The Space Library
NASA announced that approximately 200 people representing every NASA installation and the JPL were selected to augment the staff of JSC to help plan the next phase of NASA's Space Station Program. This team had two major objectives: issue a request for proposals to industry for the definition of the specific elements of the Space Station and define a reference configuration or configurations to accompany the request for proposals.
"The purpose of the reference configuration is to provide a framework to help industry understand how the various elements of the Space Station are related," said Dr. Ralph Muraca, deputy head of LaRC, designated a "center of excellence" to help plan this next phase of the program. "In addition, it will help individual companies determine which of the elements or work packages they would be interested in competing for" The group's guidelines were to develop a configuration that would meet all the requirements associated with the final configuration of the Space Station, expected to be operational in the 1999-2000 time frame, and then scale that back to an $8 billion configuration that would provide maximum mission capability in 1991. (LaRC Release 84-35)
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