MOON 'DEADLINE' SEEN TOO EARLY

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CIA-RDP73-00475R000200310001-1
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December 27, 2016
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May 28, 1964
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STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/18: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200310001-1 BALTIMORE SUN MAY 2 8 '1964 1 We fin no rea on 'MOON 'DEADLINE'that putting._ men on the moon could contribute to our military SEEN Too EARLY ,siti.r,..7rigitli. defense1, N7 esee obio e jlectil?'? iedse nce warranth a tt !a crash program or that a meet- ing of deadlines such as 1970 : serves any significant national ob- .GOP Unit Fears Expensive''jeciive. i Wasteful Crash Program "We urge, therefore, that such . ?a deadline be dropped." i By ALHERT SEHLSTEDT, PL. A Different View .i (WashirtOton Bureau of The Stoll A different view of the lunar I Washington, May 27?The Cr iti. schedule has been 'taken by I ;cal Issues Council of the Repub- jalnes a Webb, head o. we pia- lican Citizens Committee today tional Aeronautics .and Space Ad- recommended the United States ministration, in testimony before Congress. 'drop the' 1970 "deadline" for land- Webb told the Senate Space . ing men on the moon. Committee in March'.that ' if the The council, organized last year moon program were carried over to report' the views Of a number into the 1970's the cost of the .of prominent Republicans on mat-.I project would increase approxi- !ters of national importance, ap, mately $1,000,000,000 for each year :proved the lunar landing project of delay. as a whole, but feared the effort if' the present schedule is ad- hered become to. Webb testified, the job ; t L could be done for less than that would be ' expensive and .. t',0 000 000 000 ' ' , ? . . . ' waste f ul . ' ' The effecls of a stretch-out were , A national goal of landingistudied Wy NASA's Office "of 'Americans on the moon' by the: Manned Space Flight, Webb said. end 'of this decade was called, "A three-year delay would cost :for by the late President John $3,000,000,000;' a six-year delay, F. Kennedy on May. 25,, 1961, in $6,000.000,000, with no correspond- his second state-of-the-Union mes-Ong improvements in the benefits !sage for that year. "obtained,'' Webb declared. ' ? The Republican council said thei 5.3 Billion Asked present lunar program was "ad- NASA has asked Congress for mittedly a project of considerable $5,304,000,000 in the fiscal year human interest," but was chiefly which begins July 1. , About', a "prestige item intended to $2,677,000,000 of this total is for : vvin .the man-to-moon race.'' 'the Apollo lunar landing program. ' "Indeed, if this race is not Wort The 'Republican council '.saw 'or if a premature 'attempt' in- , value in the moon voyage as an ,volves loss of life, its prestige essential step toward possible trips ;value largely vanishes," observed ,to a neighboring planet, which it lthe council, headed by Dr. Milton considered, more worthwhile. S. Eisenhower, president of the In another part of its report, the .Johns Hopkins University. ? ,.- , council expressed the belief that These considerations, coupled the United States has gained con- with the "deadline date" gives.siderably more valuable prestige the project "the character af a ' than has been realized from some scientific space projects. : ..,. 'crash' program," it was stated, other ---- -- ? - "This is increasingly true when .the schedule slips, as is bound to ? happen in an undertaking of this novelty and complexity. Crash programs are notoriously expen- sive, wasteful and prone to pre- mature execution. , , .: ? ' "Thus the manned lunar land- ting project .!- represents a 'chal- lenge, to be sure, but we do 1101 ;believe that' the':?.vhOped-for psy , chological or ' propaganda ad- [vantages call for the present ef- ! forts to meet a publicized dead- line,. currently -stated as prior to e ieve Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/18: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200310001-1