Word: programs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space program still in deep and serious trouble? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Prematurely-Grey Mare...
Though he never said so flatly, Ike was clearly nettled by the word from France that President de Gaulle was seeking to defer the proposed program for a Western summit early next month and the follow-up of an East-West meeting in December (see FOREIGN NEWS). "Time," said he pointedly, "is slipping by ... Fashions [of diplomacy] have seemed to change a little bit ... I would prefer always . . . to do these things by diplomatic means, and then finally get heads of government agreement." This time the President reversed his position that preliminary low-level talks must precede a summit meeting...
...President of the U.S. personally untangled some of the reins of that prematurely grey mare, the U.S. space program, last week. In doing so, he created a wonder that the thing had ever moved at all. And he notably missed a chance to give it a sharp slap on the rump and get it headed somewhere...
Thus the President put under one roof the responsibility for the space-engine program, which lags two to five years behind the Soviet Union's. Von Braun & Co. will have responsibility for developing the interim Saturn program and possibly NASA's longer-range F-1 Rocketdyne single-chamber engine of 1,500,000 Ibs. thrust, and beyond that, the giant Nova with 6,000,000 Ibs. of thrust. The U.S., said Ike at his Augusta press conference, would spend on the civilian space effort next year "something more" than the current $500 million a year...
...organization untangling would ever get the space program going until the President abandoned the obsolescent concept that space can be divided into civilian and military sectors, hence can be organized by civilian and military agencies side by side. This concept developed logically enough when defense planners decreed that space projects should not be allowed to interfere with the military's urgent task of catching up on missile production. But today the U.S. missile program has gathered substantial momentum, while the Russians have demonstrated a firm intention to use space as a primary cold-war weapon...