Dec 2 1975
From The Space Library
Space programs that create new commercial activity, new wealth, and new jobs were essential to the growth of both the U.S. and Europe, Sen. Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) told the Assembly of Western European Union. Reviewing policies that had governed agreements on space with Western Europe, Moss warned that continued cooperation in space would hinge on Europe's paying its full share of the expenses. Concentration on programs with immediate application to earth problems should not mean abandonment of space science, or loss of "the vision and imagination that have been so important to our achievements to date," the senator said. (CR, 10 Dec 75, S 21650; SBD, 5 Dec 75, 185)
Defense/Space Business Daily reported that "a NASA spokesman" had said the proposed Mariner Jupiter-Uranus mission scheduled for 1979 had not been eliminated from the agency's FY 1977 budget and was "still planned." The Federal budget squeeze announced for FY 1977 had put the $177-million project in serious question. NASA reportedly might try to use one of its Mariner Jupiter-Saturn 1977 spacecraft as an alternative to permit a flight to Uranus. (SBD, 3 Dec 75, 175)
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