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SPACE AGE REPORT
States bidding for rich
shuttle launch program
By FRANK MACOMBER
Military-Aerospace Writer
Copley News Service
Now that the supersonic
transport project appears dodo
bird-dead so far as federal
financing is concerned, another
aerospace extravaganza is
moving upstage, and with it
another political power
struggle.
This is the so-called U. S.
space shuttle program in which
American astronauts by 1979 or
1980 are to fly reusable air
plane-like shuttlecraft from
earth to orbiting space stations
on a busline-like timetable.
The first phase of the
multibillion-dollar project is
already well under way.
Several aerospace industrial
giants are bidding for contracts
to design and build the space
stations, the shuttle ships
which would take off like
rockets but land like con
ventional aircraft, and the
boosters to hoist them into
orbit.
Some shuttle contracts are
due to be awarded by the
federal space agency in the
next few months.
Yet the greatest stakes in the
shuttle program in terms of
dollars involve the space
agency’s ultimate selection of a
launch site. The state which
grabs off the shuttle launch pad
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complex will get a rich in
jection of billions pulsing
through its economic veins.
Consequently in the last few
weeks a new space race has
developed — not between
Americans and Russians, just
between Americans and
Americans.
While Cape Kennedy, Fla.,
launch site for the Mercury,
Gemini and Apollo manned
space shots, appears to have
the pole position in this rich
handicap race, California,
Utah, Texas and New Mexico
are bidding for the jumping-off
place for America's next great
venture in space.
The nation’s space experts
from Dr. Wernher Von Braun
on down theoretically are to
select the space shuttle site on
the basis of studies, yet so rich
is the prize that it already has
become firmly entwined in
state and national politics, just
as the SST was ensnared.
Why not, when you consider
that the eventual site will
become the nucleus of hiring
from 70,000 to 80,000 people
through the 10-year develop
ment period and for spending
from $6 to $9 billion in the first
seven years of that decade?
In California, Gov. Ronald
Reagan has named a Space
Shuttle Task Force headed by
Robert H. Volk. The 20-
member group already has
visited the White House, the
Pentagon and the space
agency’s headquarters to sell
California as the logical
location for a shuttle launch
complex. It also has called on
California legislators and those
from some adjoining states to
push for either the Western
Test Range site at Vandenberg
Air Force Base north of Los
Angeles, or Edwards Air Force
Base in the desert.
The new treasure hunt has
cut sharply across party lines
in California, allying Reagan
and Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr.,
a Southern California
Republican, with their arch
political enemies, the state’s
.wo Democratic senators, John
V. Tunney and Alan Cranston.
Florida, while space agency
officials seem to favor its Cape
Kennedy as a continuing
launch site for U. S. space
programs, nevertheless is
running scared. The state’s
new governor, Reubin Askew,
went to the Cape for the recent
Apollo 14 launch, mostly for
business.
He wanted to talk with Rep.
Olin Teague, D-Tex., chairman
of the prestigious House Space
subcommittee which has a lot
to say about such projects as
the shuttle system.
‘‘l’ll leave no stone unturned
to get the shuttle for the Florida
launch site,’’ Askew admits.
"In terms of money it would be
the most sensible thing, having
the shuttle at Cape Kpnnedy.”
A few weeks ago Askew
huddled with the Florida
congressional delegation in
Washington and pledged his
administration’s help in land
ing the shuttle program for
Cape Kennedy.
“We must get additional
revenue from the federal
government,” he told the
delegation. “I don’t care what
you call it,” he said, referring
to President Nixon’s revenue
sharing proposals, “but
Florida has to have help.”
Though the final shuttle site
selection appears to be between
Florida and one of the two
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