The Nation - News from Aug. 6, 1987
NASA said it is studying a plan for turning the space shuttle into an unmanned vehicle capable of carrying 50 to 75 tons of cargo into orbit. Such a vehicle would be called Shuttle-C, for cargo. Its main use at first would be for assembling the space station that the United States plans to put into orbit in the mid-1990s.
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