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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1973
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