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一、预算增加困扰国会 1984年7月25日,美国前总统里根说:“我们梦想飞到火星上,我指示航宇局研制一个永久性载人空间站,耗资80亿美元,1994年投入实用。”然而,现在离梦想似乎越来越远了。今年初,美国国会鉴于投资过巨,规模太大,责成航宇局大力缩小空间站设计规模。3月份,航宇局提出了新方案,但预算仍为300～400亿美元,1996年发射,1998年还不能作长期载人飞行,2000年时也无法全部投入实用。6月份,部分国会议员提出要取消自由号空间站计划。为此,英法报纸纷纷发表评论认为,若自由号空间站计
On July 25, 1984, former US President Reagan said: "We dreamed of flying to Mars. I instructed the Board of Aeronautics to develop a permanent manned space station at a cost of about 8 billion U.S. dollars. It was put into practical use in 1994. However, it seems to be getting further away from the dream. Earlier this year, the United States Congress, in view of its huge investment and large scale, instructed the NASA to reduce the design scale of the space station. In March, NASA proposed a new program, but with a budget of 30-40 billion U.S. dollars, it was launched in 1996 and can not be used for long-term manned flights in 1998, nor can all be put into practical use in 2000. In June, some MPs proposed to cancel the Liberation of Space Station project. To this end, the British and French newspapers have commented that, if the free space station