Jan 16 1962
From The Space Library
In speech to the American Astronautical Society, Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, submitted that Russia could match the U.S. in space "only if we place short-run convenience ahead of our nation's future. . . . There are those who seem to take for granted that a country like Soviet Russia, with less than half the per capita income of the United States, can afford a major successful space program, while we can not. That is, at best, ridiculous, and, at worst, deliberate sabotage." Rep. George P. Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, spoke to the American Astronautical Society on the broad benefits derived from the space program. He said: "Space exploration is of such immense importance to man's total knowledge that it will benefit and alter the course of his existence in ways no more foreseeable today than those which resulted from the invention of the wheel One of the major benefits being gleaned from this vast effort to conquer space is the stimulus which it is providing for scientific research in new and uncharted areas. . . ."
Army Pershing missile Successfully fired on longest test flight to date-400 miles—from AMR.
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