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SOF COMING (TMc)
RUSS: LIVE
Astronaut Alan Bean returned to his hometown of
Fort Worth today and said he thinks the Apollo program
probably would continue at the reduced rate of two
missions a year. He said it was too bad that
cutbacks in space exploration have come at the time
of payoff. He said the time will come when such
space work will be i back in style. Captain B an is
looking forward to the SKYLAB project, which will
put men on an orbiting space platform. 3ean hopes
to be among the crews that will be stationed on
SKYLAB. One of the beauties of SKYLAB, said Bean,
is its economy.SOF CAPT. BEAN :41
KEY:
ENDS: "...VEHICLE OR A NEW LABORATORY."
RUSS: LIVE
(QUICK OUT!!)
Captain Bean 22 said it currently costs about one-
thousand dollars a pound to put a Saturn rocket into
space. He said that SKYLAB will reduce the cost of
space transportation to about 100-dollars a pound.ALAN SEAN - 1
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Alan Bean], script, October 8, 1970, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1331346/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.