May 2 1965
From The Space Library
The recommendation to NASA by NAS-convened study group (see Apr, 26) that Mars receive "the highest priority among all objectives in space science," evoked editorial comment from the New York Times: "The biological exploration of Mars will not be cheap, and available funds for scientific research and development are limited. "The likely costs and returns of the search for Martian life must be compared with those from, say, programs for stepped-up research into cancer or for building giant accelerators that would permit physicists to peer more deeply into the recesses of the atomic nucleus. That broader consideration may well suggest a less concentrated program than the scientists had recommended. "Such a decision would have the added advantage of allowing more time for an effort to make the search for Martian life a cooperative international project and not...merely one more arena for the wasteful duplication that is the essence of Soviet-American space competition." (NYT, 5/2/65)
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