Dec 4 1981
From The Space Library
ESA handed over to NASA in Bremen the first flight unit of Spacelab, built for use on the shuttle. Just a year after delivery of the engineering model, NASA received all the systems-first main components of standard equipment, platforms, ground facilities, and spare parts-to be used on the first Spacelab flight September 1983. It would transfer to NASA in May 1982 experiments for the first Spacelab payload.
An industrial consortium with ERNO as prime contractor had carried out development since January 1980. The contract, worth 301.3 million deutschmarks (DM) at 1980 levels, had increased to 380 million DM at 1981 levels. NASA would receive the components of a second Spacelab flight unit, ordered throughout ESA to be identical with the first, in 15 batches, starting in 1982. (ESA Info 28; NASA Release 81-193; MSFC Release 81-145)
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