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PRESIDENT Richard Nixon, says his friend, Astronaut Frank Borman, likes to describe himself as a space "activist." Nixon's activism will soon be tested. Eagle had hardly lifted off the Sea of Tranquillity when the very success of Apollo 11 heightened the controversy over what role the space program...
The price tags under consideration are no more precise than early estimates of the cost of putting man on the moon. NASA officials, who have always worried about being accused of underestimating costs, used to quote figures as high as $40 billion, but the actual cost of Apollo to date...
Concern about the future of the space program could well provoke a useful debate over the nation's priorities. The severest critics of space tend to cast the issue in terms of a hard choice between space and social tasks. Jerome Wiesner, John Kennedy's scientific adviser, says...
The prospects for man's first leap into the solar system will surely be enhanced by the success of such unmanned missions. Not only will they prove the feasibility of interplanetary travel, but they will help arouse the public support necessary for such journeys. To be sure, Americans will...
So, if future space shots are to be judged on the basis of their diversionary possibilities, Apollo 11 scores high on the ratings. After all, if President Nixon, a man whose distinguished career is speckled with its own glorious moments, can call Sunday the proudest day of his life, what...