In order to construct a permanently staffed orbital laboratory, spending could reach $16.5 billion by the year 2001, it said.

Smaller and Cheaper The 16-member committee, which assessed the space agency's redesign of the orbital laboratory to make it smaller and cheaper as ordered by President Clinton, said all three general options were feasible.

And with the cold war over and the deficit growing as an economic and political issue, the construction of a permanently staffed orbital laboratory has steadily lost Congressional support in the last three years.

The men didn't mention the Bene Gesserit at all, focused instead on improving the manufacturing techniques for valuable Richesian mirrors in the orbital laboratory.

The carbon fibers in those compote walls were precipitated in an orbital laboratory, and couldn't have been made except in free fall.

In the deepest regions of her cells, Raquella worked with what she had, achieving results that Mohandas Suk could never have hoped to attain in his orbital laboratory.

The Apollo Extension Series (Apollo X,) proposed up to 30 flights to Earth orbit, using the space in the Spacecraft-LM Adapter to house a small orbital laboratory (workshop).

National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said construction of the orbital laboratory would begin in June 1998, a delay of eight months from the original plan, which was announced last month.

Kvant is a large orbital laboratory that docked with the space station on April 9.

The first piece of the international space station was orbiting Earth today, sprouting antennae and unfolding solar power panels as it awaited other segments, which will eventually grow into the largest orbital laboratory in history.