From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!cbosg!npois!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: NASA Contract Article-I.D.: alice.612 Posted: Thu Jun 3 07:22:20 1982 Received: Fri Jun 4 04:37:09 1982 NASA yesterday announced that it had awarded a contract to Perkin-Elmer Optical Group of Danbury, Conn., for the solar optical satellite to be carried into orbit by the shuttle in 1985. The contract would be worth $57 million by 1984. NASA won't make a final decision until all costs are examined.