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Opening a new era in spaceThe overall payload planning aimed at initial projected use of the Space Transportation System (STS) which will establish a new capability for exploring and using space through operations of the Shuttle, Spacelab, and Interim Upper Stage (IUS) in the Eighties is reviewed, and the significance of this planning for science and technology is discussed. The first payloads will fly on the STS during Orbital Flight Tests (OFT) beginning in March 1979. Primary OFT objectives include verifying flight systems and the Shuttle's ability to accomodate various types of payloads in different mission modes. The STS schedule will build up to as many as 60 flights in 1984. The STS payloads will make contributions to the management on a global scale of the interrelationship of production, consumption, population growth, and pollution.
Document ID
19770046174
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Culbertson, P. E.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Bold, T. P.
(NASA Office of Planning and Program Integration Washington, D.C., United States)
Date Acquired
August 8, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1977
Publication Information
Publication: Astronautics and Aeronautics
Volume: 15
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Accession Number
77A29026
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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