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    The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session
    The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session
    The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session
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      Title: The Practical Values of Space Exploration

      Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S.

      House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second

      Session

      Author: Committee on Science and Astronautics

      Release Date: November 24, 2006 [EBook #19911]

      Language: English

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      Union Calendar No. 928

      86th Congress, 2d SessionHouse Report No. 2091

      THE PRACTICAL VALUES OF

      SPACE EXPLORATION

      REPORT

      OF THE

      COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

      U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

      EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION

      PURSUANT TO

      H. Res. 133

      [Serial I]

      July 5, 1960.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

      UNITED STATES

      GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

      58231° WASHINGTON: 1960

      COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

      LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

      House of Representatives,

      Committee on Science and Astronautics,

      Washington, D.C., July 1, 1960.

      Hon. Overton Brooks,

      Chairman, Committee on Science and Astronautics.

      Dear Mr. Chairman: I am forwarding herewith for your consideration a staff study, The Practical Values of Space Exploration.

      This study was undertaken pursuant to your request for information covering the various utilities of the national space effort. The study has been prepared by Philip B. Yeager and reviewed by other members of the professional staff.

      Charles F. Ducander,

      Executive Director and Chief Counsel.

      LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

      House of Representatives,

      Committee on Science and Astronautics,

      Washington, D.C., July 5, 1960.

      Hon. Sam Rayburn,

      Speaker of the House of Representatives,

      Washington, D.C.

      Dear Mr. Speaker: By direction of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, I submit the following report on The Practical Values of Space Exploration for the consideration of the 86th Congress.

      Overton Brooks, Chairman.

      CONTENTS

      THE PRACTICAL VALUES OF SPACE EXPLORATION

      July 5, 1960.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

      Mr. Brooks of Louisiana, from the Committee on Science and Astronautics, submitted the following

      REPORT

      [Pursuant to H. Res. 133]

      THE PRACTICAL VALUES OF SPACE EXPLORATION

      Introduction

      This report has been undertaken for a special reason. It is to explain to the taxpayer just why so many of his dollars are going into the American effort to explore space, and to indicate what he can expect in return which is of value to him.

      Such an explanation, even after 2 years of relatively high-geared activity in the space exploration field, appears to be warranted. There is still a segment of the U.S. population which has little, if any, notion of the values that the space program has for the average citizen. To these people the expenditure of billions of dollars on missiles, rockets, satellites, Moon probes, and other space activities remains something of a mystery—particularly when so many other worthy projects throughout the land may be slowed or stalled for lack of funds.

      If, therefore, the practical value of the American space program is being questioned, it is a question which needs to be answered.

      It is interesting to note that the problem is not unique to the United States. In the Soviet Union, which counts itself as the world's prime investigator of space, there is likewise an element of citizenry which finds itself puzzled over the U.S.S.R.'s penchant for the interplanetary reaches.

      What do sputniks give to a person like me? a Russian workman complained in a letter which Pravda published on its front page. So much money is spent on sputniks it makes people gasp. If there were no sputniks the Government could cut the cost of cloth for an overcoat in half and put a few electric flatirons in the stores. Rockets, rockets, rockets. Who needs them now?[1]

      It goes without saying that the workman was severely chastised by the Soviet newspaper, but his point was made.

      No matter where taxpayers live they want to know—and are entitled to know—what good a program of space exploration is to them.

      During the 1960's it is expected that the U.S. Government will spend anywhere from $30 to $50 billion on space exploration for all purposes, civilian and military. It is the intent of this report to delineate in lay language, and in terms which will be meaningful to those who have not followed

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