Jun 8 1963
From The Space Library
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson said in commencement address at Univ. of Maryland: "We are not reaching for prestige in space-we are reaching for peace. And this is considerably more urgent than many realize or others will yet admit .... "In exploring space, we are exploring the environment of the earth itself. We are finding paths through a new dimension-and historically civilizations have stood or fallen according to their ability to move through a dimension. "We seek to make space an instrument for peace and the development of mankind. But if we abandon the field, space can be preempted by others as an instrument for aggression. `And in a world of competing social systems, we would be naive indeed if we failed to recognize how bleak the future would be if this new dimension became the realm of tyranny. For your children, and your children's children, an iron curtain would be drawn across the pathway to the stars . . . ." (Text, CR, 6/18/63, A3867)
Soviet Academician Nikolai Kozyrev of Pulkovo Observatory wrote in British magazine Nature describing evidence of volcanic processes on the moon. Ejection of gases, including molecular carbon, was observed from (1) central peak of Alphonsus crater on Nov. 3, 1958, and Oct. 23, 1959; and (2)' Aristarchus crater in Nov. and Dec. 1961. (Nature, 6/8/63,979-80)
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