Space Station: NASA's Search for Design, Cost, and Schedule Stability Continues

Abstract

In 1984 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) instituted a program to assemble a research station in space. Since that time major changes in the space station's design, cost, and schedule have occurred. As a result of these changes and the apparent instability of the program, the former Chairman, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, asked GAO to provide information on: annual changes in the space station's design, estimated cost, and schedule since 1985; the annual budget requests and resulting congressional funding for the space station for fiscal years 1985-91; and the impact of NASA's 1989 program review on the space station's cost and capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA238751

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alternating Current
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Astronautics
  • Attrition
  • Biological Sciences
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Cost Estimates
  • Engineering
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials
  • Program Management
  • Space Sciences
  • Space Stations
  • Space Suits
  • Space Transportation
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites