Mar 18 1988
From The Space Library
NASA concluded negotiations with the ESA on a bilateral memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cooperation in the design, development, operation, and use of the permanently crew-tended civil international Space Station complex. Under the terms of the new MOU, ESA would provide the Columbus laboratory module to the international Space Station complex. This permanently attached, pressurized module would support approximately 40 single equipped racks for payloads and storage. ESA would also provide an untended, free-flying polar platform for Earth observation experiments, complementing the polar platform under development by the United States. As a third element, ESA would provide a man-tended free flyer (MTFF) designed to accommodate long-duration microgravity applications in the fields of fluid physics, life, and material sciences. (NASA Release 88-44)
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