the alternative futures that will confront us and future generations. LONGER RANGE OBJECTIVES The short term goal is to make the Univere Room functional, profitable and self-sustaining. Beyond this, however, there remains a vast array of educational tools to be developed and applied: panaramic projections to set forth the scene to precede educational experiencesñ programmed learning textural and visual presentations; and virtually an infinity of comparable elements that would contribute to the educational experience. We want either to produce them, contract to others for their production or establish a franchising arrangement for marketing them. A proposal of The Friends of Man in Space. William C. Moore Director of Programs International University Foundation Telephone 202 293-1456 Public relations (Publications, Advertising, etc) 6,000 Subtotal 6,000 $23,400 * Includes F.I.C.A., sick leave, insurance, etc. **After a definitive work plan for "planning" has been delivered Hold for Release Statement for the Record by Frederick H. Osborn, Jr.. Vice President Hudson River Conservation Society Chairman Putnam County Bicentennial Commission to the Subcommittee on Space and Space Administration of the Committee on Science and Technology U.S. House of Representatives America needs a new frontier. Leaving Europe, sailig the Atlantic and carving homes from the wilderness selected for our progenitors men and women with a low tolerance for the status quo, high courage and a sense of adventure. Many of us have inherited these qualities. They make for a cantankerous citizenry, but on singularly responsive to challenge. But where is the frontier today? Taking over other people's territory by slaughtering the natives has gone out of style. We are beginning to recognize the fragility of the delicate planetary shell on which we live. Photos taken by the Apollo astronauts helpd that. It won't stand much more crowding and exploitation. The old earth is pretty well filled up; so we grow radicals, hippies, and flower children today instead of sturdy pioneers. We can open frontiers within ourselves, try to live small, and limit our growth, but our instincts for adventure and freedom may not be able to adapt to such restructuring. Or we can go up and out hundreds and thousands of miles above us, to where there is virtually unlimited Synthesized energy; where gravity can be synthised by using centrifugal force; where hard vacuums, so expensive to produce on earth, are free; where temperatures range from close to absolute zero to millions of degrees to power new jobs; where new sources of raw materials are available on the -2 moon, among the meteoroids and asteroids, and the moons of other planets. These are wide open spaces to which the "endless" prairies of colonial pioneer days are crowded Tokyos. For a while the space between the planets will be harsh and unforgiving, just as this land of ours was harsh and unforgiving in the early days. Our government should build the highway to the frontier, and help the early settlers, just as earlier governments sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition, aided the transcontinental railroads, provided grants of land. We wouldn't have won the West without that help. First there will be work cubicles, like Skylab, or the Soviet Soyuz now orbiting above us, from which men and women will build power stations for sending energy to earth via microwave. Such power stations can make the United State an energy exporting nation again without desecrating our environment. It will be possible to repair communications satellites. Scientists will do research with orbiting telescopes and sophisticated instruments without atmospheric interference. There will be servicemen for sarkh satellites which observe the weather and survey the earth for minerals and fuels. There will be manufacturing modules to make quality crystals for computers. The Soviets are working on all this, as reported in the Christian Science Monitor of January 13th. There will be explorers searching for raw materials among the meteroids. 24-215 O-78-56 |