Aug 11 1988
From The Space Library
A Space Systems Development Agreement was signed by NASA and SPACEHAB, Inc., a private firm that was developing a Shuttle-based pressurized module for commercial applications. According to the agreement, NASA agreed to provide Shuttle payload bay space for SPACEHAB's middeck augmentation module on six Shuttle flights beginning in 1991. SPACEHAB would pay $28.2 million (adjusted for inflation) for standard services for each flight. The SPACEHAB module, to be constructed by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, Huntsville, Alabama, would be a metal truncated cylinder measuring 10 feet in length by 13 feet in diameter, designed to fit in the Shuttle's cargo bay. Shuttle crew members would, access the module through a tunnel from the Shuttle's middeck. The company would make avail-able to customers a variety of locker and rack accommodations, with associated support and integration services. SPACEHAB was specifically identified in the President's Commercial Space Initiative, announced in February, in which the Reagan administration committed to make the best efforts to launch the commercial module in the early 1990s.(NASA Release 88-114)
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