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MEETING NUMBER 11 

SPACE TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY GROUP 

SUBJECT 

REVIEW OF NRO ANNEX TO STG. REPORT 

17 Jwie 1969 

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Meeting #11 - 17 June 1969 

PARTICIPANTS 

Gen Stewart 

Gen Berg 

Gen Hedrick 

Capt Geiger 

Maj Geer 

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DISCUSSION 

General Berg opened the meeting by reiterating that Dr. McLucas 

had asked for the comments o~ land his group on the 

draft NRO Annex to the STG Report. 

General Hedrick indicated that he felt a review of recent developments 

concerning the Space Transportation System {STS) would be appropriate. 

The group agreed and General Hedrick provided a short briefing {copy 

attached). 

General Berg introduced Maj Geer who discussed an Aerospace Corp. 

paper which dealt with the interrelationship of the NRP with a STS. 

~-------~ 

suggested that we should proceed with the business 

at hand and provided the following specific comments on the NRO draft. 

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Specific Comment on Page 10: 

I feel that this paragraph is a bit too lukewarm for what you might 

get out of an STS System. This document has been forwarded already 

but I personally would at least have written here a statement of 

uncertainty saying that there are some interesting positions which 

require deep thought and analysis to see how a large up and down 

shuttle can be exploited to reduce costs in the satellite area. The 

paragraph is a little too negative. but I do not really expect the 

NRO to stand up and be counted as a full supporter and carry a large 

portion of the burden of the justification of the STS but, on the other 

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hand, you don't want to shoot it down: You want to join the crowd. 

The NRP is just one of the customers. In that sense, a positive 

attitude is something quite in order. 

Editorial Comment Concerning Page 26: 

Systems Chart. It would be helpful if the table contained not only 

the weight of the payload but also the launched dimensions thereof 

and the orbit requirements. I am sure this is available in other 

places. 

General Hedrick provided the following comments. 

Editorial Comment: 

I thought the history of the NRO might be better put into an annex. 

Comment Concerning Page 10: 

I agree with ~-------~ hat Page 10 is a pretty weak statement. 

Comment on Orientation of Paper: 

I found the paper oriented toward the relationship of the NRO with 

NASA. I £eel that this is not correct and that the NR0 1 s relationship 

with the total space program should have received more emphasis. 

I think some much stronger recommendations could be made by the 

NRP. I think that DOD recommendations as strong as the NASA ones 

could have been made. 

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Comment on Summary: 

The summary deals only with the NASA and ACDA relationships. 

This is misleading and the summary should be broadened so as 

to summarize the entire paper • 

. General Comment: 

With the exception of the summary, I think it is extremely well 

written considering the audiences for which I understand it is 

intended. 

General Berg agreed that the discrepancy concerning the sw:nmary is 

the major flaw in the paper and should be corrected. 

General Stewart was called to Dr. Mc Lucas 1 s office during the meeting 

and provided the following comments to the secretary after the meeting. 

General Comment: 

This is a very good paper and should do the job very well. 

Comment Concerning Page 9: 

The brief paragraph on MOL needs to be revised or deleted to take 

into account the cancellation. It should be called to Dr. McLucas 1 s 

attention that a decision is required here -- whether or not to put 

in something about a part of MOL being kept alive. 

ACTION ITEMS: 

None. 

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June 21, 1969 

:tvIEMORANDUM TO COLONEL LEW ALLEN 

SUBJECT: Space Task Group 

Today I met with Russ Hedrick and Nevin Palley and we 

agreed that there were certain recormnendations for changes 

in the format of our annex to the Space Task Group report 

which deserves serious consideration. I would like to review 

this with you as soon as possible to see to what extent we 

can incorporate their recormnendations in our annex. They 

said that the new draft of our report should be ready by 

July 7th, this does not give us too much time. 

I understand our report is out to the various members 

of ExCom. We should check to see that any recormnendations 

they have are back in our hands as soon as possible. 

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John L. McLucas 

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