Research with the space shuttle
NOV 01, 1973
A laboratory the size of a boxcar will be placed in earth orbit by the Space Shuttle system within the next decade, thus beginning a new era of science in space.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3128318
The new space transportation system based on a reusable space shuttle, currently under development, will substantially change our traditional methods of space research that have been based on a ballistic‐missile technology and its reliance on expensive expendable components. The shuttle will not become operational until 1979, but the time is ripe now for planning the space‐exploration and space‐science programs for the period 1978–85.
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John E. Naugle, Space Science, NASA.
© 1973 American Institute of Physics
