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bidding war broke out among major U.S. television networks as CBS,
ABC, and Fox fought for the rights to create and produce a Survivor-type
show aboard the International Space Station. NBC recently signed an
agreement to produce a show using the Russian space station Mir, as
the desintation prize. Dreamtime had met with CBS, ABC and
Fox networks earlier in the week to discuss plans for a
reality-based TV show involving civilians in space, a proposal
which it claimed NASA endorsed.
 NASA
immediately rebuked Dreamtime in a letter dated, September 21,
saying that the multimedia company "shall, at no time,
represent or claim to represent NASA or act as NASA’s
agent…While Dreamtime is free to engage in discussions and enter
into agreements with third parties, such agreements shall not alter
or expand NASA’s agreement with Dreamtime…NASA has no present
plans to participate in a Survivor-type television series."
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