Apr 22 1968
From The Space Library
Representatives of 43 nations signed space rescue treaty at separate ceremonies in Washington, D.C., London, and Moscow. At State Dept. ceremony in Washington, D.C., President Johnson said he hoped treaty would end wasteful competitive spacemanship between U.S. and U.S.S.R. and that next decade in space would increasingly become a partnership. Treaty, which provided for assistance to astronauts in emergency and safe return of astronauts and space hardware, had been unanimously approved by U.N. General Assembly Dec. 19, 1967. Secretary of State Dean Rusk signed for U.S. It would become effective when ratified by U.S., U.S.S.R., U.K., and two other countries. (Ward, B Sun, 4/23/68, 1; PD, 4/29/68, 1108)
New York Times editorial on cuts in NASA FY 1969 budget: "Now that the desired space research capability has been created, it is merely good sense to shift some of the resources thus employed to other and more urgent national needs . . . [such as] cleaning up the nation's polluted air and water, providing high-speed land transportation, or working out faster and cheaper ways to build new housing to replace the noxious and overcrowded slums. . . "None of this means . . . that the United States will or should abandon the effort to explore space and exploit space technology. . . . But for the moment the new relatively svelte-though still very adequate-space program meets the nation's needs quite generously." (NYT, 4/22/68; CR, 5/1/68, E3646)
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