Jan 9 1962

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NASA's Associate Administrator, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., moderated a panel discussion on "Reliability—The Key to Space Operations," at the 8th National Symposium on Reliability and Quality Control in Washington. Panelists John II. Rubel, Assistant Secretary of Defense; Dr. C. Stark Draper, Head of the Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, Dr. Simon Ramo, Exec. VP of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc.; and Dr. Jack A. Morton, VP Device Development, Bell Telephone Laboratories discussed means of comprehensive, planned efforts to increase the Nation's percentage of success in space launchings and operations.

Addressing SAM's Aerospace Medicine symposium, Major General C. H. Mitchell, Vice Commander of AFCS, said that the "Russian threat in space is becoming obvious . . . Clearly it is our responsibility as a nation to insure that space is used to benefit all mankind. We can insure this only through development of the ability to conduct military operations in space with maximum effectiveness . . ."

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