Area Firms Seek Space Station Work; Executives Explore Subcontract Potential From: The Washington Post | Date: November 7, 1988| Author: Elizabeth Tucker | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

When General Electric Co. official Charlie Klette stood up at a Tysons Corner conference last week and talked about subcontracting possibilities on an $895 million piece of manned space station business the company's Astro Space division has won, the dozens of technology executives in the audience listened closely.

"We need software, analysis support," Klette told the crowd, which was attending a business briefing on the status of NASA's program to build and fly a manned space statio...

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