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Are there any rumors of a big NASA lunar space policy due any day now?
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In article , Jeff Findley wrote: http://www.whitehousetapes.org/exhibits/space_old/ ... If you read the whole transcript, you can see he was trying to beat one point into Webb's head, that beating the Russians to the moon ought to be *the top* priority of NASA. Everything else could wait. Even the lunar science could wait. And as Webb kept pointing out in response, it was the official policy of both the Administration and Congress that "pre-eminence" in space was the goal, and that this required advancing on a broad front, not favoring the lunar landing above all else. This policy wasn't something JFK alone had created, and it wasn't something he could just brush aside; to change it, he had to get other people to buy into a revised version first. Clearly, there was a fundamental conflict between the space pre-eminence policy and JFK's budget priorities, which was going to have to be resolved sooner or later, but JFK never got around to doing that. Pre-eminence started to slip when LBJ, as one of his first presidential decisions on space, postponed funding for a nuclear-rocket flight test pending a specific mission requirement... indirectly serving notice that post-Apollo continuation of the broad advance was no longer assured. And it died when Congress -- much altered by substantial turnover in the 1966 mid-term elections -- gutted NASA's post-Apollo plans in summer 1967. -- spsystems.net is temporarily off the air; | Henry Spencer mail to henry at zoo.utoronto.ca instead. | |
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