Asri-unix.1013 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!mclure@SRI-UNIX Mon Mar 15 02:01:36 1982 space station? !a017 0050 15 Mar 82 PM-National Briefs,600 COCOA, Fla. (AP) - The administrator of the American space program says the United States may join with Japan and Europe within the next five years to build an orbiting space station. James Beggs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told the newspaper Cocoa TODAY in an interview published Sunday that the station would use European Space Agency technology in building spacelabs and Japanese computer expertise. He said habitable modules connected by steel beams would be designed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and launched piece-by-piece from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ap-ny-03-15 0343EST ********** ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.