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-BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES


NASA Should Provide The Congress

Complete Cost Information

On The Space Telescope Program



NASA's space telescope will be the largest,
most complex space observatory ever devel-
oped. Life-cycle costs--$530 million in de-
velopment costs, including $296 million for
project reserves, and $600 million in opera-
tions costs to the year 2000--total an esti-
mated $1.1 billion.

Excluded from the life-cycle estimate were
civil service salaries, studies and support costs,
and inflation. Had they been included, the
total would have been about $2.2 billion.

NASA's semiannual Space Telescope Project
Status Report should fully   disclose the
amount and use of reserves in the program
estimate and include all applicable program
costs. The Congress would then be in a more
informed position to determine the program's
progress and outlook.







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JANUARY 3, 1980

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