What are the decisions of the United States to widely use the "space laboratory"?

In order to widely use the "space laboratory", the United States decided to purchase a second "space laboratory" separately, and NASA has officially ordered it from the European Space Agency. 1980 65438+1On October 30th, the European Space Agency signed a contract with enoch Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., the former Federal Republic of Germany, to deliver this order worth more than 300 million former German marks to the main contractor enoch.