The Nation - News from Dec. 24, 1986
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will continue to rely on the space shuttle as the main means of putting in orbit materials needed to assemble the space station, officials at the space agency said. After a study of the use of unmanned rockets in the assembly of the space station, it was decided that the rockets posed increased “technical uncertainties,” operational risks and costs.
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