U.S. SPACE PROGRAM AT CROSSROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01116R001202360024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 1, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Qliicago Tribune
1615 L STREET
SUITE 300
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006
Executive Re?ist
86. 2470X
TELEPHONE
202/785-9430
June 2, 1906
I hope you will find the attached special Tribune report
useful and informative.
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I believe that this nation should commit itself Emil Challenger firght, is askin yet another
to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, president to spend billions of dollars on a new '~
of landing a man on die moon and returning expedition into the: unknown-to launch= a.
him safely to, Earth.." new, futuristic space project .at what w' be
President John F.' Kennedy; astrononucal oust ',
May 25, 1961. Yet, :n one, presidential task force talks "of,'`
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American public
keeps. faith, but '
honeymoon ends
By Jon Margolis
ASHINGTON-Full speed ahead, but
That, according to the polls, the
politicians and the experts, is what the
American people are telling their leaders about
sending people into space, now that seven as-
tronauts have died there.
The continuing faith in the space p
/anger last January stems from two. very old
American beliefs-that the future will jec better
than the per, and that technology . can help
make it that way.
"It goes way back," said Bernard Merger, the
director of the-American Studies Program at
;.thing about t e history of this country. A tech-
covey of America srble. And a lot of those
notion- of risk-taking; of frontiers, ana
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