U.S. Plans In Space
(N .Z.P .A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The Air Force will develop in the next four years a manned military space laboratory to orbit the earth by 1968. Mr Robert McNamara, Defence Secretary, announced the new project today when he disclosed cancellation of another Air Force man-in-space project, tfie manned space glider called DynaSoar. The manned orbiting laboratory and other related research would provide greater knowledge about man’s capability for sustained life in space, at a saving of about £35.000,000, he said. The new project was “an insurance programme” to prepare the United States to send manned space warships aloft if the need should arise,” he said. The laboratory will consist of a pressurised cylinder about the size of a small caravan.
It will be able to accommodate more than one man.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 9
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