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Suggested Citation:"ACRONYMS." National Research Council. 1989. Report of the Committee on a Commercially Developed Space Facility. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18565.
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Suggested Citation:"ACRONYMS." National Research Council. 1989. Report of the Committee on a Commercially Developed Space Facility. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18565.
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ACRONYMS A&R Automation and Robotics AMICA Autonomous Microgravity Industrial Carrier CCDS Center for the Commercial Development of Space CDSF Commercially Developed Space Facility DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DOD Department of Defense EDO Extended Duration Orbiter ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle ESA European Space Agency EURECA European Retrievable Carrier GAS Can Get-Away-Special Canister . ISF Industrial Space Facility JEA Joint Endeavor Agreement MBB Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm MMS Multimission Modular Spacecraft MSAD Microgravity Science and Applications Division (NASA) MSL Material Science Laboratory NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration 57

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NRC National Research Council OAST Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (NASA) OCP Office of Commercial Programs (NASA) OSS Office of Space Station (NASA) OSSA Office of Space Science and Applications (NASA) R&D Research and Development RFP Request for Proposals SAMS Space Acceleration Measurement System SFU Space Flyer Unit SIP Space Industries Partnership SPAS Shuttle Pallet Satellite SSDA Space Systems Development Agreement TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System USML United States Microgravity Laboratory USMP United States Microgravity Payload 58

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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.

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