SPACE STATION: Program Instability and Cost Growth Continue Pending Redesign

Abstract

This report responds to your request that we (1) update the information provided in our May 1,1991, testimony on the total cost of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) space station program; (2) update our analysis concerning the share of NASA'S future years' budgets that the space station and related activities would likely require under the current design; and (3) report on the current and prospective status of financial reserves for the space station program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA344758

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Centrifuges
  • Congress
  • Cost Estimates
  • Cost Overruns
  • Costs
  • Determinants (Mathematics)
  • Flight
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Instability
  • Space Stations
  • Space Transportation
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites