Jun 2 1963
From The Space Library
In commencement address at MacMurray College (Jacksonville, Ill.), Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson said: ". . We are more masters of the future than of the past but we allow the hand of the past to rest heavily upon us .... "At today's pace, the sum of human knowledge is being doubled every decade. On a relative basis, the class of 1963 may well be three centuries of learning ahead of the class of 1933. But we are asking a generation capable of going to the moon to live in a world ordered and fixed by generations which scarcely knew the model T-and that makes no real sense .... " (Text, CR, 6/4/63, 9438-39)
Japanese newspaper Yomiuri reported Japanese Space Development Council was preparing to build navigational satellite for launching by U.S. within five years. Plan was to be submitted to Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda for approval. (L.A. Times, Wash. Post, 6/4/63)
NASA Associate Director of Plans and Program Evaluation Addison M. Rothrock said in keynote address, Southern States Work Conference: "Please educate our youth well. Teach them of the power that inevitably comes with knowledge of our universe and the people who inhabit it. Teach them sciences so they can achieve triumphs in science and engineering. Teach them the humanities so they will use these triumphs for man's betterment. And teach them to blend these two great branches of learning " (Text)
