Nuclear Energy for Space Propulsion and Auxiliary Power: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, August 28 and 29, 1961

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 315 pages
Focuses on cooperative AEC-NASA-DOD RPD programs to apply nuclear power to rocket propulsion and spacecraft power systems.
 

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Page 5 - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
Page 283 - Now it is time to take longer strides — time for a great new American enterprise — time for this Nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
Page 186 - ... it bears on almost every aspect of our relations with people of other countries and on their view of us as compared with the USSR Our space program may be considered as a measure of our vitality and our ability to compete with a formidable rival, and as a criterion of our ability to maintain technological eminence worthy of emulation by other peoples.8 Gabriel A.
Page 283 - If we are to win the battle that is going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, if we are to win the battle for men's minds, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take.
Page 283 - With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not.
Page 289 - While the board has here stressed the importance of this policy as a scientific goal, it is not unaware of the great importance of other factors associated with a US man-in-space program. One of these factors is, of course, the sense of national leadership emergent from bold and imaginative US space activity.
Page 288 - Board has recommended that scientific exploration of the Moon and planets should be clearly stated as the ultimate objective of the US space program for the foreseeable future.
Page 288 - From a scientific standpoint, there seems little room for dissent that man's participation in the exploration of the moon and planets will be essential, if and when it becomes technologically feasible to include him. Man can contribute critical elements of scientific judgment and discrimination in conducting the scientific exploration of these bodies which can never be fully supplied by his instruments, however complex and sophisticated they may become. Thus, carefully planned and executed manned...
Page 283 - Shepard, this very risk enhances our stature when we are successful. But this is not merely a race. Space is open to us now ; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because, whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
Page 22 - Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead-time, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we nevertheless are required to make new efforts on our own. For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

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