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Show The ult Lake Tribune, Wednesday, November Many Subcontractors Sought For Massive Earth Orbiter Jack Lefler Associated Press Writer By - LOS ANGELES North American Rockwell Corp. is recruiting an army of up to 10,000 subcontractors to help put the $2 6 billion space shuttle into orbit. North American the prime contractor for the biggest space project of the 1370s, must line up companies, large and small, to produce components and supplies for the shuttle orbiter These subcontractors and suppliers will slice up among themselves about 53 percent of the program's total cost over the next six years. The spac" shuttle contract was awarded to North American last July by the National Space and Aeronautics Admin- istration. Extended Stay vehicle about The the size of a medium-rangjetliner is designed for extended stays in space where it would launch, maintain, retrieve and repair satellites monitoring and analyzing earth problems in such areas as air and water pollution, agriculture, and hydrology, mineralogy urban planning. Some call it a space truck. To put the shuttle program together, North American is hunting out and going to prospective subcontractors and suppliers instead of waiting for them to come to it. e This is being done by inviting presidents and chief engineers of thousands of firms to attend regional symposiums at which they will be told in detail what North American wants and when and wnere it 9 Shop the one needs it. Tnese meetings, conducted by a North American task fuice, will be held in Long Beach, Calif., Nov. 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