Brian Welch Headquarters, Washington, DC April 16, 1997 (Phone: 202/358-1600) RELEASE: 97-68 NASA AND AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND ANNOUNCE COOPERATIVE EFFORTS NASA and the Air Force Space Command have agreed to work together in several areas of mutual interest in the hopes of saving both organizations costs and sharing in new technologies to benefit future spaceflight and spacecraft. "This agreement exemplifies NASA's commitment to finding ways to reduce cost and, where appropriate, share our assets with the Air Force for greater efficiencies in our respective missions," said NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin. Under the terms of the agreement signed by Goldin and Air Force Space Commander General Howell M. Estes, III, NASA and the Air Force will form partnership teams to study seven areas of potential cooperation. These areas include studying the cost feasibility of launching Defense Support Program satellites from the Space Shuttle in 1999; possible expanded use of the Shuttle for Air Force technology payloads; and consolidating plans that outline space transportation needs of NASA and the Air Force. NASA and the Air Force also will examine their respective infrastructures and common-use facilities; develop and coordinate an implementation plan to address orbiting space debris; and possible collaboration on the Clementine II project; and expand cooperation in space weather environment research and data sharing. The partnership teams are scheduled to provide an interim report on their findings to senior management of both organizations in mid-July of this year. -end-
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