TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Report of the Committee on a Commercially Developed Space Facility DO - 10.17226/18565 PY - 1989 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18565/report-of-the-committee-on-a-commercially-developed-space-facility PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - The Committee on a Commercially Developed Space Facility assessed the scientific and commercial benefit to the nation of having a CDSF in place prior to Space Station operations. The committee examined planned and anticipated microgravity research and manufacturing requirements of the federal government and commercial users as well as the extent to which existing, planned, and proposed capabilities and infrastructure could support these requirements. The committee's findings concentrate on the desirability of having an additional space facility in service to the interim preceding Space Station Freedom. ER -