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Tele phone (301) 656-8274 Copyright 1977 World Future Society All rights reserved. 24-215 O 78-49 MARYLAND STATE ASSOCIATION B'NAL B'RITH LODGES 1284 Graff Court, Apt. 1B The Honorable Olin E. Teague Dear Representative Teague, Thank you for the opportunity to present testimony from the B'nai B'rith Energy Committee of Maryland for the January 1978 Committee on Science and Technology Hearing on Future Space Programs. Enclosed is the testimony and the abstract for publication in the records of the hearing. Respectfully yours, Bruce Friedman Bruce Friedman, Chairman PAPER SUBMITTED BY DR. BRUCE FRIEDMAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE B'nai B'RITH ENERGY COMMITTEE OF MARYLAND BIOGRAPHICAL DATA Born June 21, 1939, Brooklyn, New York. Graduated Brooklyn, College, Brooklyn, New York, June 1960, B. S., Physics. Graduated Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Ph. D., January, 1969, Physics. From July 1967 to January 1970, worked in Naval Applied Science Laboratory, Brooklyn, New York. Most of the time between that job and my reporting to my present job at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center, Annapolis, Maryland in September, 1974, I worked at the American Institute of Physics, New York, New York. Here in the Annapolis R and D center, most of my time has been spent in the pollution Abatement Division. Abstract of Testimony for the January 1978 Committee on Science and Technology Hearing on Future Space Programs from Dr. Bruce Friedman, Chairman of the B'nai B'rith Energy Committee of Maryland The B'nai B'rith Energy Committee of Maryland feels that an aggres sive space industrialization effort by the United States of America is of compelling importance. The Energy Committee strongly urges that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) budget be increased annually by 20% for every year of the ten year period commencing with FY 1979 in order to allow NASA to vigorously develop space-based energy and energy-related options. Further, the Energy Committee unequivocally supports House Concurrent Resolutions 451 and 447 with their request for an assessment "of developing as a national goal for the year 2000 the first manned structures in space for the conversion of solar energy and other extraterrestrial resources to the peaceable and practical use of human beings everywhere." |