Jan 4 1969
From The Space Library
At Explorers Club symposium in New York scientists, educators, community leaders, and students discussed significance of Apollo 8 mission. William Booth, Chairman of Commission on Human Rights in New York, said, "I still am quite disturbed by the fact that we're dying at home, people are about to starve. There's overpopulation and underproduction of food in the world. We haven't been able to solve these problems and here we are going off to the moon." Dr. Robert Jastrow, Director of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said flights were "a means of concentrating our energies toward building a technological capability." Moon flight had played "same role as Lindbergh's flight to Paris" in that it demonstrated new capability. Space program was paying economic dividends in communications, mineral exploration, and new materials. Dr. Maynard M. Miller, Chairman of Explorer Club's World Center for Exploration Foundation, said, "The word 'impossible' has a different meaning after Apollo 8. Perhaps its real contribution will be as a symbol of man's willingness to dare to do something great" (Wilford, NYT, 1/5/69, 26)
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