Mark Hess
HQ, Washington, D.C.                                                                         
February 15, 1991 
(Phone:   202/453-4164)


John J. Loughlin II
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone:   301/286-5565)



Release No. 91-27

GODDARD ANNOUNCES CONTRACT TERMINATION 

     Officials at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., have 
announced the termination of the contract held by the General Electric 
Company, Astro-Space Division, Princeton, N. J., for the design, 
development and test of the Attached Payload Accommodation 
Equipment (APAE) element of Space Station Freedom.  The contract, 
valued at approximately $555 million, was signed in 1987.

     The APAE was deferred indefinitely from the space station during 
the early phases of aCongressionally-mandated 90-day restructuring 
review of the Freedom program.

     Goddard officials termed the termination for the convenience of the 
government.

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