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Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision to abandon the Dyna-Soar space glider project offers an encouraging sign of budgetary restraint in the American space program. The Dyna-Soar project, which was expected to cost more than $1 billion, would have contributed little to U.S. military capability or scientific understanding of space. Since the Pentagon had already spent nearly $400 million on Dyna-Soar, its apparent determination to halt further extravagance on a program with limited potential is surprising and welcome...
...abandonment of the Dyna-Soar project was accompanied by much less heartening news. McNamara announced that the Air Force will begin the development of a manned space station to be orbited in 1967 or early 1968. MOL, as the project will be called, will cost approximately $900 million, and it will contribute considerably more to American space technology than Dyna-Soar. While Dyna-Soar was designed solely to investigate the means of returning a man from space, the manned-orbiting laboratory will give scientists valuable information about man's ability to survive in space over an extended period...
...urged that the United States pursue such programs. The Pentagon should not formulate its space goals in deference to the pleas of election-minded Representatives. Nor should it offer responsibility for a manned space project to the Air Force merely because the Air Force can no longer work on Dyna-Soar...
...upping House-approved totals, the Senate committee added $60 million for developing a mobile ballistic missile to be fired from a tracked vehicle, $6.7 million for the National Guard, $23 million for military communications satellites. The Senate bill included $125 million for research on the RS-70 bomber and Dyna-Soar projects, and $322 million for test-model work on the TFX fighter. It may come up for a Senate vote this week...
...manufacturer of automatic control systems, turning out 13,000 products so diverse that they encompass a 600 microswitch and a $3,000,000 electronic data processing system. "We pride ourselves," says a Honeywell executive, "on being able to control damned near anything." Every manned space flight, from Mercury to Dyna-Soar, depends on intricate controls made by Honeywell...