SPACE STATION BAILOUT FOR RUSSIA IS PROPOSED NASA ASKS $660 MILLION TO KEEP PROGRAM GOING.(Business)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: September 22, 1998 | Copyright information

Worried that trouble in Moscow is threatening its own dreams, NASA wants to spend up to $660 million over five years to bail out its Russian partner in building the international space station, agency officials said yesterday.

Key members of Congress immediately faulted the proposal as too expensive, clouding the fate of the biggest science project of all time. But NASA officials argued that the American and Russian programs are now linked so intricately that the Russian effort must be preserved lest the American space program also suffer.

In just two months, orbital ...

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