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Space Station: Program Instability and Cost Growth Continue Pending Redesign

NSIAD-93-187 Published: May 18, 1993. Publicly Released: May 18, 1993.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) updated information on the total cost of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) space station program; (2) updated its analysis concerning the share of NASA future years' budgets that the space station and related activities would require under the current design; and (3) reported on the current and prospective status of financial reserves for the space station program.

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