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Charles Yost, a member of NASA's Space Station task force, speaking at the Shuttle/Space Station business opportunities conference in Washington, said "There's been an overhyping of the commercialization of space idea." He added that it would take years before investments in many of the space-based opportunities being explored showed a significant return. However, he pointed out, "industry must be willing to risk its money up front," and said that nine companies had applied for a joint endeavor agreement with the space agency. At the time, only four companies had actually signed with NASA to use the [[Space Shuttle]] for business ventures. Space industry analysts said that it would cost "a minimum of few million dollars" to begin exploiting the commercial potential of space. Though satellite communication had proved profitable, most space-based efforts faced an uncertain future. A Reagan administration recommendation to turn the nation's [[Landsat]] remote-sensing and weather satellite systems over to private industry had met resistance in Congress, and some analysts believed there might not be a market for remote-sensing data. Many attendees at the conference questioned whether any company would make money in space manufacturing before 1990. (W Post, Mar 7/84, D-16) *[[February 1984|February]] *[[March 1984|March]] [[Mar 1 1984|1]] [[Mar 2 1984|2]] [[Mar 3 1984|3]] [[Mar 4 1984|4]] [[Mar 5 1984|5]] [[Mar 6 1984|6]] [[Mar 7 1984|7]] [[Mar 8 1984|8]] [[Mar 9 1984|9]] [[Mar 10 1984|10]] [[Mar 11 1984|11]] [[Mar 12 1984|12]] [[Mar 13 1984|13]] [[Mar 14 1984|14]] [[Mar 15 1984|15]] [[Mar 16 1984|16]] [[Mar 17 1984|17]] [[Mar 18 1984|18]] [[Mar 19 1984|19]] [[Mar 20 1984|20]] [[Mar 21 1984|21]] [[Mar 22 1984|22]] [[Mar 23 1984|23]] [[Mar 24 1984|24]] [[Mar 25 1984|25]] [[Mar 26 1984|26]] [[Mar 27 1984|27]] [[Mar 28 1984|28]] [[Mar 29 1984|29]] [[Mar 30 1984|30]] [[Mar 31 1984|31]] *[[April 1984|April]]

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