Apr 23 1976
From The Space Library
Addressing the Utah Air Force Association's Bicentennial program in Salt Lake City, NASA's Deputy Administrator George M. Low gave a status report on ongoing projects such as Landsat, Viking, and the Space Shuttle, then speculated at length on accomplishments in space that might be celebrated on the occasion of the U.S. Tricentennial. Referring to "the beginning of the industrialization of space," using the first generation reusable space-transportation system called Shuttle to set up the first factories in space, he said "the real breakthrough" would come with energy collected from the sun and beamed down with microwaves to provide all the electrical needs of a major city., None of this technology, he added, was beyond today's knowledge. He then forecast a cleanup of earth's environment, communications applications of all kinds, and exploration of outer space made possible by discoveries using the Space Telescope, ending with descriptions of space colonies that would "become the real frontier." He concluded by stating that "all of my projections are overly conservative" and could all become reality long before the end of America's third century. (Text)
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