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7 SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

A total unified plan for space research and solar system exploration throughout the next 35 years has been described. Only existing engineering knowledge is used. Launch rockets would be recovered from all flights, in an upright attitude on the launch structure, ready for reuse without refurbishment. Standardized spacecraft would be used. All missions possible within foreseeable extensions of present technology are included, totalling 218 missions per year, to all parts of the solar system. The cost would be about $2 billion per year. The plan would be operational within ten years.

The plan is comprehensive in scope, and sufficiently detailed to bracket the system uncertainties. However, it is recommended that a two year planning effort be completed in such detail that all contracts will be written, ready for signatures, before any final commitment is made. The planning effort requires an autonomous team.

Meanwhile, interim prograns should be devised to use the existing space installations, hardware, and people for operations which are useful in their own right, or for their contribution to the program proposed in this paper. In addition to various proposals already being considered by NASA are the following:

o The NASA-proposed manned earth-orbiting laboratory should be a prototype of the manned space ship described in Sections 2.3 and 2.4.

o The National Space Academy should be inaugurated in 1969 at the Manned Spacecraft Center, as described in Section 6.3.

o A 365-day, round-trip, manned flyby trip to Venus, launched by a single SATURN V rocket, should be undertaken. Refer to Table 3.1.1. The writer hereby volunteers to man the flight, alone or with company, during the opportunities of 1972, 1974, 1975, or 1977.

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INTER-NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

FOUNDATION

INCORPORATED 1953, WASHINGTON, D. C.

SUITE 310 1319 H Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006

January 21, 1978

Honorable Olin E. Teague, Chairman
Congressional Committee on Science
and Technology

2321 Rayburn Building

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Mr. Teague:

In connection with the Hearings on Future Space Programs January 24, 25, 26, we submit the following on why Space is a viable alternative to War

"Cogitations on War and the End Thereof
Revealing Space as an antidote to war"

and a proposal to build a Universe Room in every school
and university in the land. It would provide the
optimum environment in which children could learn about
the Universe. This is a vital part of every child's
education, for Space lies in the Future of Humankind.
It is urged that Congress appropriate educational funds
for that purpose:

"A Prposal to Plan and Develop a Universe
Room for the Education of Children and

Adults, throughout the Land"

Very sincerely yours,

William L. Moose

William C. Moore
Friends of Man in Space

SPACE LIES IN THE FUTURE OF MAN A SERIES

by

THE FRIENDS OF MAN IN SPACE

PART I

COGITATION ON WARS AND THE END THEREOF
REVEALING SPACE AS AN ANTILOTE TO WAR.

by

William C. Moore

1819 H. Street NW
Washington, D. C.

Preface for Psychologists

"Psychologists could be the most important people in the World, but they are not" according to one of their own, Dr. Maslow He goes on to explain that they are so absorbed in fruitless bickering among themselves that they do not attack in mass and in depth the problems of humanity. To the solution of these problems they could make magnificent contributions; the problem of War among them. (See "Manas")

The Physicist, Robert Oppenheimer, made this explicit to the Psychologists in a speech he gave before the American Psychological Association in September 1955. Therein he made perilously clear that where there is power, such as the psychologists potentially possess, there is responsibility. Said he, the physicists have been extraordinarily noisey about the immense powers which, largely through their efforts, have come into the possession of Man, powers for very large scale and dreadful destruction. We have spoken of our responsibilities in terms which are very provincial because the psychologist can hardly do anything without realizing that for him the acquisition of knowledge opens up the most terrifying prospects of controlling what people do and how they think and how they behave and how they feel.

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"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", May 1959, p. 214.

"We need an undertaking

which would put a group of Psychologists with wide experience and great ability to work full time" on War. Roger W. Russel in "Roles for Psychologists in Maintenance of Peace.

The American Psychologist, Vol. 15, No. 2, February 1950.

COGITATIONS ON WARS AND THE END THEREOF

by

William C. Moore

These cogitations do not pretend to be thought through but merely adumbrations which reasonable men should consider in any serious attempt to solve the problem of War. Such consideration has not been given unto the present.

In these times Man is making a general onslaught upon the deathdealing Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Horseman of Disease is being pushed back by the advance of Medicine so that the individual's life span has been doubled in the United States. Wherever the Horseman of Famine strikes in the World, vast quantities of food are shipped in; yet: "There went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another, and there was given unto him a great sword "* and even this horrendous Horseman of War, Man is striving to push into the Limbo of the past.

But before penetrating the problem posed by War, something should be said about the premonition of Natural and man-made Cataclysms which will befall our small planet during what is left of the 20th Century. It is predicted that cataclysms will assault Mankind such as he has never before experienced during his entire existence to this day. This may explain why the human population is increasing with unprecedented speed. "The human race in the unconscious recesses of its being "** foresees these decimating events even though demographic experts are blind to them.*** Should the race intuition be wrong, then the earnest admonitions of the demographic experts must be heeded. They say, if we insist on diminishing the ravages of Death in its manifold forms, we must diminish the proliferation of births in the same measure.

To be sure Humanity may be able to migrate into other worlds, or man-made spheres,**** or celestial infinity or resort to

Birth Control, or

Shrinkage of the human form, from five feet six inches to a mere six inches, or

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Book of Revelations, Chap. 6, Verse 4.

This is a phrase of the economist-psychologist, J. M. Keynes.
He uses it in connection with a similar phenomenon alluded to
in his "Economic Consequences of the Peace.

*** Lewis Mumford spells this out. (See The City in History, 1961, p. 774.)

**** Extension of planetary engineering as put forth by Clarke in his "Exploration of Space".

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As between cataclysms and war, cataclysms could be so overwhelming that Man will be in no mood to indulge in the internecine pastime of War.

As between War and Pestilence or Famine, it must be confessed that no one ever wrote an epic glorifying either of the latter two. Yet poets have glorified War since the beginning of time.

And do we eventually banish Death and live forever? If the doctors continue to improve their skill, we shall at least live a mighty long time, if not forever. In the United States California and Florida will become ghettos for us "prehistorics" while the more perfect generations of the future will take off for halcyon reales of space. (See "A Glimpse into the Far Future" by W. C. M.)

But how to support all of us oldsters who no longer produce? Will we immortals no longer consume either? Or can a society support a vast incubus of non-producers? This is the stark problem of old age.

But it is being solved as the machine proliferates production and more is produced than the population can consume in our "surplus economy. That this is a feasible way of life is demonstrated by certain insects species which normally support drones.** The "Affluent Society" of Dr. John K. Galbraith has much to say about this.

With this background, let us proceed to consider the Horseman of War particularly. It is now the month of April when the human race gets restless and wars fulminate. I cannot help but recall the forebodings of that troubled spring before the outbreak of the last World War. How it was said that weapons had become so destructive that the human race would not survive the conflict. This was stated on excellent authority. The human race disregarded this admonition and went to war anyway. What is more, survived the hostilities and is more numerous, more bellicose and stronger than ever. Currently there is expectation of a Third World War during one life-span, an unprecedented exhibition of human ferocity with side effects.

Though the prospect for the complete extermination of mankind has never been more convincing, there have been times long before the Twentieth Century when the doom of the race seemed imminent. It was natural catastrophe that nearly caused it in Noah's time. Albert Schweitzer believed that Jesus Christ grew up in a time when it was thought that the end of the world was at hand. This influenced Christ's thinking. What people think are the facts is often more important than what the facts really are. If Dr. Schweitzer is cerrect, the generally-held belief of the First Century gave rise to a great religious leader, Jesus Christ, whose influence has stretched over two millenia. It is altogether possible that our times are

* Seo Introduction to "Communist & Cooperative Societies" by Charles Gide, which suggests that 1/3 of society is not usefully employed. ** See "of Ants & Men".

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