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...cost the U.S. about $2 billion and would have no immediate and visible military value. But the missilemen do not leave the argument there. "It would be like the Sixth Fleet," said one Air Force general, "a deterrent and therefore a peacekeeper. I'm all for it." Ben Schriever adds: "Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy...
From outside as well as inside, the problems crowd in. One day recently Schriever's intermediate-range ballistic missile Thor misfired in Florida, rose 100 ft. and settled gently to its launching pad, where it cracked as it toppled over. The Army, which had test-fired a version of its Jupiter IRBM, was soon crowing bitterly that Thor was nothing but a no-good IPBM-interpad ballistic missile-and won a point in the bitter new interservice war (TIME, June...
Another day Schriever was told at the White House that his budget in fiscal 1958 was going to be cut by some 15%. Said a senior official: "I'm going to ask you to get along on this without retarding the program in any way-but if you run into trouble, come back and see me." Schriever tightened up his cost accounting, and said: "We have not been shorted. I know of no decision that we're going to get less money than is necessary...
...moon. Rocket motors, guidance systems and air frames needed for such a shot can almost be picked up off the shelf for assembly. ARDC has considered setting up an eleventh division for space and space technology. "We have the know-how to hit the moon right now," Schriever says flatly. "The ballistic missile program has established the resources to move into space. Man is inquisitive. He's going to keep pushing at the frontiers...
...even as his cold eyes range far into space, Ben Schriever, missileman extraordinary, keeps his feet on the earth. His job is to find out how to move an H-bomb 5,500 miles from Point A to Point B in 20 minutes before the Russians find out how, and to produce the hardware that can do it. "The mission is to maintain the peace." he says. "The ballistic missile will improve our deterrent capability. This will make any aggressor think twice...