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2260 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975 to the locating and relocating of Federal in By Mr. HALEY: Lafi Alisa. Toelupe; to the Committee on the stallations and facUlties; to the Committee H.R. 2774. A blll for the relief of Charles Judiciary. on Rules. A. Pfleiderer; to the Committee on the Judi H.R. 2779. A blll for the relief of Yun Tim ciary. Yim and Amy Chee Yim; to the Committee By Mrs. KEYS: on the Judiciary. H.R. 2775. A biD for the rellef of Rev. Ernest ByMr.SISK: PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS E. Thompson; to the Committee on the Judi H.R. 2780. A bill for the relief of Benjamin ciary. Baxter; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Under clause 1 of rule xxn, private By Mr. LEGGETT: H.R. 2781. A blll for the relief of Masonic bills and resolutions were introduced and H.R. 2776. A bill for the relief of Candido Homes of California, a nonprofit corpora tion; to the Committee on Agriculture. severally referred as follows: ~adua; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. ANNUNZIO: H.R. 2777. A bill for the relief of Michael H.R. 2782. A blll to provide for the rein H .R. 2773. A blll for the relief of Modern statement and validation of U.S. oil and gas Catalan; to the Committee on the Judiciary. lease No. U-0140571, and for other purposes; Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Chicago; By Mrs. MINK: to the Committee on Interior and Insular to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2778. A bill for the relief of Ralph Affairs. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE CRISIS IN ASTRONAUTICS At first glance, 1975 is a bright ye-ar for plex congressional budget process, and the science of astronautics. Presidential election politics. With Apollo-Soyuz, we will see this sum Enough of the symptoms of pessimism! I HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE mer the first t:.,lly joint venture in space by am sure each of you can add one or more OF TEXAS men from different nations and different equally valid reasons for concern. If this be ideologies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES crisis, let us make the most of it. A few days after ASTP, we will launch the I'll turn now to some of the considerations Monday, February 3, 1975 twin Viking spacecraft toward their historic I believe we should all have in mind as we Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, last landings on Mars in 1976. move into the second half of this decade. Pioneer 11 wlll speed toward Saturn, and For openers, let me suggest that we should Thursday, in an address to the American two Hellos spacecraft toward closeup studies more and more be viewing astronautics as a Astronautical Society, the distinguished of the Sun, while we launch small astronomy routine part of our national-indeed our in Senator FRANK E. Moss, delivered an im and Explorer satellites and continue the era ternational-life. Certainly in the area. of portant and timely message entitled, of space applications with a dozen or more space applications this is becoming the case. "The Crisis in Astronautics." As newly .new communications, weather and earth We barely note that every month or so a appointed Chairman of the O:tllce of resources satellites, whether they be "ERTS" domestic or international communication Technology Assessment, I intend to lend or "La.ndsats". Especially in non-NASA com satellite, a new low-earth orbit or synchro my support to Senator Moss' request for munications satellites, we are witnessing a nous orbit operational weather satellite or veritable explosion of activity, and isn't ATB- remote sensing resource satellite is launched. providing the Congress the best tools in 6 a great success! - Commercial and foreign-built satellites are helping to decide the hard choices be And here on Earth, the space shuttle pro becoming quite common. Indeed, during one tween competing request6 for research gram will be in high gear. We are flna.Uy recent month NASA had six satellites in proc and development funds. I commend this actually buUding, in plants across this coun ess at the Cape for launch, not one of them speech to all my colleagues: try and in Europe, the elements of the first a. NASA bird. THE CRISIS IN AsTRONAUTICS space transportation system. Someone noted a few years ago that not too long after Lindbergh's flight the French (By senator FRANK E. Moss) Heady stuff I But here, at the risk of sounding like stopped flocking to Le Bourget every time It is a great pleasure to meet with you at Chicken Little, I'll list some of the dark someone flew across the Atlantic. Even in the AAB annual luncheon and to have this clouds that come with these silver linings. this room full of space buffs, I doubt if many opportunity to share a few thoughts with I give you this list, not in ascending or de· of you could name the nine Skylab crewmen. you. scending order of gloom, but simply as the So perhaps we should not be too upset when You have honored me twice in recent facts come to mind. the networks decline to cover a splashdown. months-by inviting me to be with you to First. After ASTP comes the long-foreseen And while I am on this point I certainly day and by electing me to your Board of four to five year hiatus in American-manned should note that once the space shuttle has Directors. I must acknowledge that I was space flight. Public interest in the space made its first few flights, another shuttle unopposed on your ballot, a situation that I program has traditionally dropped during flight will probably generate about as much have seldom experienced and that I find such periods. interest as the sa111ng of a. large ship from quite enjoyable. I wish it could become habit Second. For the sixth consecutive fiscal New York or San Francisco. forming. year, the Administration budget request for Of course, I would not want to suggest that In thinking over what I might discuss with NASA totals $3.5 billion or less. With infla we settle permanently for NASA budgets of you today, I decided first-off to include the tion gnawing away at NASA just as it is at $3.5 billion, but perhaps the relatively level word "crisis" in the title. Unless you are the rest of us, we have now sunk well more nature of the budget over these past six years talking about a "crisis" these days, no one than a half bUlion dollars below the prom can be viewed as one indicia of acceptance. Will pay much attention to you. ised "constant level" budget. And this year I happen to believe that Congress would Historians will have to choose whether to there are no new starts I accept a bit more, but let us be thankful call the 1960's the decade of Apollo, of Viet Third. Although those of us who believe that, despite the repeated rumors, the budget nam, or of political assassination. But I have in research and development as the key to a has.not continued to decline. little doubt that they will settle on the better tomorrow welcome the cre-ation of Now, if we view the current budget levels, 1970's as "The Decade of Crises". ERDA, we must face the likelihood that in or only modestly higher levels, as the norm Thus we are all aware of crises in· the creasing demands for energy research and for the next few years, perhaps we will view environment, crises in energy supply an4 de development will represent increasing com our options for the near-term future in a dif mand, and of a worldwide crisis of faith in petition for the astronautics research and ferent way. various institutions, especially political in• development dollar. Perhaps we will begin to devote serious at stitutions. National Commissions warn us of Fourth. The space shuttle requirement for tention to how we can capitalize on the ad impending crises in food, in water and in over a billion dollars per ye-ar for each of vantages of the space shuttle in the 1980's. As materials generally. Scientists increasingly the next few years w1l1 leave precious little we move into the shuttle era, there will be are sounding alarms over the apparently de room in the NASA budget for meaningful little patience with science and applications teriorating world climate. And now, as my new starts. NASA and its contractors have payload advocates who aren't ready. Committee heard yesterday, we face the possi shown great ingenuity in recent years in fly The great inventor, Fulton, is supposed to bility that our ozone supply will end, not ing backup ha.rdware, and in using the "bil have said "when it's steamboat time, you With a bang, but with the "psst" of Freon liard ball" approach to planetary flybys to steam!" Whether or not Fulton really said from a can of hair spray. give us the maximum science for the dollar. it, I fully expect NASA to say to the payload And so my subject: "The Crisis in Astro But there 1s a limit to the amount of prog community, "when it's shuttle time, you nautics". ress that can be made unless, the Space shuttle!" Let me begin by assuring you that my re Science Board has pointed out, a new start Such an attitude, it seems to me, would marks wUl dwell only briefly on the sad symp "wedge" can be created soon.