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... However, in early 1 98S, the Associate Administrator for Space Station submitted a formal request for an NRC workshop to identify and prioritize Space Station engineering issues. A week-long, intensive workshop was held on November 7-11, 198S, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in Irvine, California; this report summarizes the main findings and recommendations of that workshop, and reflects the vieurs and opinions of the workshop committee.
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... GENERAL DESIGN ISSUES 1. The major issue of assuring the safe return of the Space Stations crew under emergency conditions has not been addressed in the Space Station concept presented to the committee; the committee believes a crew emergency rescue vehicle is required.
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... ISSUES RELATED TO UTILIZATION AND OPERATIONS REQUIREMENTS 1. The committee believes that the general issue of the compatibility of all the planned/potential users of the Space Station is very important and needs to receive more attention.
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... No software risk management plan exists, although major software risk factors exist.
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... S The relative inaccessibility of the Space Station and the relatively meager resources that will be available to the crew heighten the need for special attention to the potential problem of electromagnetic interference at the Station.
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... MANAGEMENT ISSUES RELEVANT TO DESIGN 1. The committee believes that the Space Station management structure has complicated the Space Station development task.
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... Thus, the potential exists for errors to be made (notably those of omission) even among well-intentioned, skilled organizations.
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