era of space commerce and industrialization that will benefit not only the United States but its friends and allies around the world. The strategy is rooted in the fact that the Space Shuttle, together with a Space Station, will provide the United States and its partners with an unmatched capability to live and work in space routinely and on a full-time basis. Manned and unmanned portions of a space station complex are equally important. Our experience and intuition tells us that people play an important role in space station operations. By automating certain routine functions or processes, space station personnel are free to use their reasoning and intuition to adapt to new events or take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Hence, a real challenge in the program is to find the unique blend of man and machine to optimize station capabilities. An important philosophy in the space station design will be modularity. This approach allows maximum potential for evolutionary growth in both size and technology. It allows adaptation to new requirements due to new commercial uses not envisioned at its initiation. Modularity enables companies or countries to have discrete areas that are essentially their own, and, thus, would be able to protect their proprietary interests. As for international participants in the program, we will have discussions with Europe, Canada and Japan, and possibly with potential private sector participants. VI. CONCLUSION From the very beginning of the U.S. civilian space program, international cooperation and participation has played a major role. President Reagan, in his State of the Union address, announced a comprehensive plan for space. This plan has three major initiatives: • A proposal to build a permanently manned Space Station so Americans can be living and working in space within a decade. • An invitation to America's friends and allies to participate in the Space Station Program. • A program to stimulate cooperation by goverment and industry in developing the commerical potential of space. In closing, I can do no better than to quote the words of Vice-President Bush to an audience of U.S. and European space officials: Let us continue to be partners, in this and all fields. And let me take this opportunity to assure you that we intend to continue our international cooperative programs, just as President Reagan recently reconfirmed the commitment of the U.S. to a vigorous space program. I would like to thank you for this opportunity and I hope that my remarks have given you a useful perspective. REFERENCES 1. B. Russell, Authority and the Individual, Allen & Unwin, Winchester. MA, 1977. 2. J. Michener, Space, Random House, N.Y., 1982.
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