Oct 7 1967
From The Space Library
New York Times commented on congressional cuts in NASA's FY 1968 budget: "The Senate, ignoring the most obvious of all opportunities to cut nonessential spending, has not only matched the $4.5 billion the House voted for space excursion but tacked on nearly $100 million more to start new programs after the first Americans land on the moon. The certainty that another huge space appropriation. will come out of conference on Capitol Hill adds special interest to the fact that twice recently the leading space scientist of the Soviet Union, Prof. Leonid Sedov, has publicly stressed the importance of large-scale international cooperation for manned flights beyond the moon. . . . Now that Professor Sedov has opened the door, the Administration has an opportunity to begin diplomatic explorations to see if the Russians really are serious about replacing senseless rivalry in space with rational international cooperation." (NYT, 10/7/67,28)
Launches of military espionage spacecraft dominated US. space program, Soviet scientists Dr. V. Denisov and F. Soluyanov charged in Krasnaya Zvezda. According to the scientists, of 455 US. spacecraft launched by mid-1967, 346 were military satellites which the Pentagon "proposed to use . . . for reconnaissance on a so-called real-time scale, followed by an immediate transmission of information." Although US. "continues to persist that its aspirations are the peaceful utilization of space," they said, officials "do not hide the fact that NASA builds the scientific-technological foundation for the development of military-space facilities . . . [while DOD] finances and controls the planning . . . of space armament." (Miles, P Inq, 10/8/67,13C)
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