The Nation - News from April 9, 1987

Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger says the United States must be willing to drop its international partners from the space station project if they insist on barring American military activities or having an equal say in operations. “We must be prepared to go forward alone if the price of cooperation is too high,” Weinberger wrote Secretary of State George P. Shultz. The letter was released at a hearing of the House space science subcommittee. The European Space Agency, which has 11 member nations, had planned to spend $2 billion and the Japanese $1 billion on modules to be attached to the space station. Canada has proposed building a kind of space garage for $800 million.