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...Braun also revealed that NASA is developing a Skylab, or permanently orbiting space station and laboratory, which would carry on earth-related research...
...hope to conduct a grand tour of all the planets in our solar system-this is the real objective," Werner von Braun, NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning, said last night-to an audience of 300 at the Harvard Law School Forum in Sanders Theatre...
Commenting on Thomas Jefferson's failure to take advantage of the last opportunity for such a tour, which arises once every 179 years, von Braun stated in his talk, "After the Moon, What," that NASA is planning to cease moon exploration in favor of the grand tour and several other projects...
...NASA would never see people go hungry so that we could buy another gadget for space," von Braun said, "but a few billion dollars more a year would not embarrass us. We can help solve many of the earth's problems such as weather prediction and the location of natural resources," he added...
...America's hopes, indeed, the free world's, depended on a frail rocket named Vanguard. But the shiny object could fly only a yard before collapsing inward. The army developed the Jupiter rocket with the spinning Explorer satellite as its payload. The booster was as American as Werner von Braun, but it did not explode and the race to the moon was on. The Russians became nasty and secretive. They sent up a dog which died in space. The Americans sent up a monkey which lived. Yuri Gagarin (now dead) circled the world. Gus Grissom (now dead) let his capsule...