Men in Space The Impact on Science, Technology, and International Co

AFTER THE LUNAR LANDING Our concern in this volume is the impact upon science, technology and international cooperation of man's emer­ gence from the "cradle," the biosphere of Earth, to visit the surface of another planet. The editors invited experts in

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MIENITN

SPACE

The Impact on Science, Technology, and International Cooperation

EDITED BY EUGENE RABINOWITCH AND RICHARD S. LEWIS

MTP Medical and Technical Publishing Co Ltd

1970

PUBLISHED BY

MTP MEDICAL AND TECHNICAL PUBLISHING CO LTD Chiltern House, Oxford Road Aylesbury, Bucks

© Copyright 1969 by Education Foundation

for Nuclear Science Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1969 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher except for the quotation of brief passages for the purpose of review

SBN 85200 006 5 First published in the United Kingdom in 1970 The chapters in this volume appeared in slightly different form in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

ISBN-13: 978-94-011-6590-7 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-011-6588-4 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-011-6588-4

First published in the USA by Basic Books Inc in 1969

THE AUTHORS Freeman Dyson is with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Mose L. Harvey is Director of the Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, and a former Senior Member, Policy Planning Council and Director, Office of Research for USSR and Eastern Europe, Department of State. Sidney Hyman is a Fellow of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. John A. O'Keefe is Assistant Chief, Laboratory for Theoretical Studies, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. William Leavitt is Senior Editor of Air Force Space Digest, Washington, D.C. Franklin A. Long is Vice-President for Research and Advanced Studies, Cornell University. Sir Bernard Lovell, O.B.E., F.R.S., is Professor of Radio Astronomy and Director of the Experimental Station, Jodrell Bank, Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, University of Manchester, England. Irving Michelson is Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Thornton Page is on leave from Wesleyan University as a scientific consultant to NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center. Eugene Rabinowitch is Editor-in-Chief of the Bul1etin of the Atomic Scientists. Charles S. Sheldon II is Chief of the Science Policy Research Division of the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, and its senior specialists in space and transportation technology.

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THE AUTHORS

Philip M. Smith is Program Director for Field Requirements and coordination in the Antarctic Program Office, National Science Foundation. Sidney Sternberg is Division Vice-President and General Manager of the RCA Electromagnetic and Aviation Systems. Ernst Stuhlinger is Associate Director for Science, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. Harold C. Urey is Professor-at-Large of Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Wernher von Braun is director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

PREFACE

AFTER THE LUNAR LANDING Our concern in this volume is the impact upon science, technology and international cooperation of man's emergence from the "cradle," the biosphere of Earth, to visit the surface of another planet. The editors invited experts