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Strategic Defense Initiative: Selected References, 1986-1988: No Description Available.
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): Mission Objectives for Directing the Program: No Description Available.
Space Policy and Funding: Military Uses of Space: No Description Available.
Space Issues: No Description Available.
Selected Articles and Bibliography on the Military Uses of Space: No Description Available.
Space Policy: No Description Available.
Antisatellites (Killer Satellites): This issue brief discusses "killer satellites," the unofficial moniker for antisatellite (ASAT) missiles possessed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as U.S. efforts to develop ASAT systems and simultaneously limit their development and use.
Space Shuttle: The national Aeronautics an6 Space Administration's major manner program of the post-Apollo era is the development of a space transportation system (STS) based on a reusable space shuttle launch vehicle. Funded since FY71, the shuttle program is coming to fruition: the space shuttle successfully completed its series of four test flights on July 4, 1982. The first operational f1ig; fit was successfully completed in November 1982. The next shuttle flight has been delayed because of leaks in one of the orbiter's main engines. NASA hopes to be ready for launch on Apr. 4, 1963.