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I propose in the nut few minutes to give you a brief demoription

of tarn of the Air Faroe projects the* woe split out fret the old

LUZ. project: DISCOVIRIR and 111111211Y; and to follow that with same

observattaus as to the menegtrent Implications that east in the

current politioal.militerrobechuologioal sittmcaou.

Although the ARM and MASA effcauts (bath with and without Air

Force perticipadas) eutrampase may space probes, lunar and pleustery

satellite efforts, the major ciabiataaas program toe spree effort at

MIND involves tour systems: DitIOMMIR innERY, =DAB sod a

ocasualeabiams satellite. 1011017MEIR is as IND ettOrb with bio.

salsa an& abreacted resew& aepeets, Ville tie MEM is as RAD

effort looting to a satellite reconne gaseacie eapability, and the

110.18 is a program to use satellites to detect and trigger the slams

in the meet a hostile ballistic missile action.

DIO00VINIIR and MORT program are both aimed at establishing

a polar cif tat eepebiLtty. They oonventeetly distiagoish tbersalvee

by their boost vehio3.es. The DDEMBIR *plays the 21IOR 158003 lb.

booster with a Bell-Nestiar 15,003 lb. thrust second atop. The

SSW uses the LILO 360,000 lb. booster with the Ben-ftestler

second stage. These programs also ire distinotive as to timing

and Character. Rhe To113COVZIOM is limited to ea BID effort =prised

of same 10 or more Vest Coast latezeisIngs during calander yeer 1959,
with others to follow *ems the MIRY does not tire initially until

about the soma quarter of Weeder year 1960. These IMES? firings

will Initiate the first RIM test firings aimed at developing en

Air Toros satellite reocemdemenoe aegmbility. Although this effort

is atoll at solving the problems eldels mill permit earliest achievemeat

of the reoconaissanoe objective, %%products at these efforts without

a doubt will solve or partially solve other kaolin mel unknown

problems that fame we lake general area of spoon freakier exploration.

epeolfic 8111111a development objeatdves include egoiament to alloy

the acomeplialment of the fallacies:

Porter& terrain moping to proper aoeuracies.

Detect nes targets and verify known targets.

0. Manor nand mays* alestreete missal mmisatems.

d. Detnrnine losetian out oharacter of defenses.

41. Assess technological gains and evaluate military and

industrial strength.

t. Reconnoiter adlitary moramenta and assess weapon damegs.

Acompliah pima wastructics serveillance.

Collect weather data.

At the ensent these ere stringent objectives and pose many technical

problems. The development of suitable piaotogrephic equipment is yet

to be accaepliehed. To give you some idea of the difficulty of the

task it is like trying to photograph the belfry in Restat e s c 4 loath

Church tram the Mc dre State Building. Dispite the eitficult, of the

task, there is no doubt of ti sir military usefulness nor of the necessity

to proceed with en orderly, rapid, and detesminet metbrt to assure

earliest attainment. Viewed in the light of a national objective to

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aeintidn a pool:are of determine earliest al= °Nutritional ospeltility

beams an obvious. neoessity. The mist plan for this operational

date is TOP MOM, but I mu assure posthat it ud13. bs as early

as it ass possibly bs made.

Prerisdaite to the* initiation of MINX R&D nights is the

necessity to create a capability to reliably put a vehicle in a

predicted ambit. Although it is a distinct and eeperete progress

DITOCPTABIBe with its readily avellable THOR booster provides an ideal

orbital test vehicle. Ems, use find that ddle the current state of

eguipment and techniquse developments prealuis imediste pursuit of

IMITEIT RAD objectives, as can mike use of the terrestrial orbital

development that is to take place in the DITOOMIllt Program. ids

as ampere the IXIMIlast umber apt DXTOWIlat Valuitiles ablmissad to the

relatively sophisticated orbital devaleimat whims, against the

90 odd ATM missiles mei the 60 odid we missiles that nese

devoted to vehicle development in the 33 and XCIII programs, the sire

of the development task before as emus Into duarp focus.

Althoualu it is a !serge order, the dbjestive of. the DI800T10118

program then is to employ as soon as possible the largest setallite

vehicle that tadmology permits as a &Naomi's* tool in obtaining

a reliable orbital capability. This is a progressive devalasammt

program those goal is to continually improve the capabilities and.

useful Lite span of tile satellite so that througart the prelim.

increasingly advanced development techniques and iminations my be
The Duman flight test proves is designed to yield Waal

envirmantal infcaimitire, as wall as system pantomime characteristics.

It Mil also serve to check out the associated tracking and amprisition

instrumatation. Tracking and esqpisitica entices tbr this SWIM

of nights are located at YAM Pt. Nom Annette Islands Alaska;

Kodiak, Alaska; and Kam Pt. Havailan Manes. During these testes

performsnee evelmations of major enbsystai eampaseuto mail subsystem

todU be effected. These evainaticas progress tram relatively simple

night dynamics investigations through booster separation tests; then

to vehicle propulsions widens. and stabilisation during coast; and

free there through transition to orbits treating, telemetering data

links, and finally to capsule sapermbiaa and re-injectioa of the

eipsale into the atmosphere follomollOr aerial or mem piellip and,

emination.

The schimment and lagroment of oodles espebilitys add& I

have Just covered, is the first of three Mediate objectives of the

D311004111R Progress The remaining &Jenkins are:

The develogant of a reliable ospeula movery systea

including techniques imd procedure*.

laceentice of non-recoverahla advanced engineering tests.

As young have determined fra , y reading nen accounts of the

=SCOUR= I lambs ca February 28th of this years ea experimed

some difficulty, in acquiring end tracking this vehicle. This lair

fidelity acquisition typifies the moat of things w are attempting

to rind end correct in this program. Is another examples es feel
that there is csauplerabla sic Arica it:4*p% to be done in the area

of Tobias stabilleatton before we on fire costly vehicles anal their

payloads with the proper swum of operational. ocafidenes.

Dispite the acquisitiat difficulty, the ifebrnary firing bolstered

considerably oar confident* in the theoretical caepubations and planning

that preceded it. Oa the other band, the launch difficulties ameriencad

vith the first =COMM In January toppers the enthusiasm of success

with the realistic fact that there is a °hallowing SW effort ahead

of us.

Making at the Tortola' DIOOMEIR dbjectd.ve, and also projeablog

Into the future possibilities of a true named space flight; we era

hoping to gain fundasental night saviroo•serb intornation as it affects

speetnens. Sort are included in tie MOM= Proper •

number of bdo-seedical tufts in idols there id.13. be aupleyea a

recoverable capsule. General. Tilekenger, Soria Assistant for

Sciences to the Ocomander, AMC, soul his people era

cooperating vith ATM an the DZOOOMMIR flights with the objective

of putting living spectre* into epees, amercing tintr impulses

under certain coaditicas, stowing the speclaens and assessing

their condition first hand. there era a =Oar or this type flit''

planned for 10121cartian this year. As a rater of feat, the (next-last*)

flight during this month (is-rms*) the first of the series.

in excticipation of these biO-nedical fltexts, we hare pulled together the necessary aircraft, equipment * and people to constitute

a recovery Mese people will be stationed at the

*Choice, depending on when talk is given MI ithether =OS she taken place.
predetermined rummy area out near Lama Point, Naiati, and min

effect either an aerial or eater recovery after the capsule

has been ejected from orbit and descends to a suitable perachute

opening altitude. the initial entry into the lower atmosphere will

Involve ablative protscti dories the deoeleratiam, following which

a parachute deploy for the rewateder of the descent. Ittmulteneous

with parachute opening, chaff Pill. be dispensed so that search and

piokup aircraft asy hams In to the deseendles capsule. Met serial

ramovery try* will be et agynaclastaly 1,000 feet asploying c-32.9

litreraft with special sir ametch equipment. It this is not suocessful,

under pickup by one of three Destroyers nill be wade.

The first lasts of this series will involve live mice as the

firing spealuses. as teetediptes aid knowladge improve, it elwatld be

possible to advanes to prised* spectres. Depending as the initial

sucoesses and problems encountered, there may hem to be some ad lib

type altering of the progran.

Though moderately esesancemal, these experhments are estramely

introductory in nature, and ars tiseeise, densiderably mote

from a monad space flight. Yet, is thee* Mains, undodrtedly lies

the answers to questions which east be anseured prior to a sustained

=Md. Inuit cmpability.

Once such a capability is realised, the poseLbiLities for both

scientific and military utploitation of space activities rapidly

multiply. With a massed vehicle, the remote coubrollad situation

is trenstarred to a desteion-eaking situation which introduces a

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variety of emollients/ and, operational postibIlittles that Mould

otherwise not acorns or require emensive vaighty *ordvalet to perfora.

Thaw the least, the future InpLimbic= and vistas ihich stem

frail our current teohnologioal pas/tics in orbital anal space effort

are varied IMO. numerous. The political and military Wield:ions

are libelee rather forceful and acondmcb self evident. A casual

reference to the great volume of unclassified *me litaraturelnludIng

current itpaec and air trade journals reveal a fantastic array of

strategic possibilities. the programs that are aetnelly being studied

or pursued by the various goverment spoors land a high degree of

credence to these journaliktio reports. As Ion own mall appreciate

it is important if not immovable that static Inter est has been

aroused in these programs. The fast that there is a goneralavalcaming

In all stratus of public Industrial and private' lifts to the spas*

activities can provide a preferred basis for waving logteally Sid

intalligently into the space are we are *preaching. To the nest

casual stodent of military aspects of spies teohnology, it is

lamediately mares* that is are in the midst of a tedracilogieel

explosion, in the sense that may old Ideas are finding a taw cod

fertile field in "Isiah to geminate and case to fruitice. Additionally,

there is a general scramble in Industry to push book the scientific

frontiers. Private capital as eall as public monies are baby sapended

is the haste to get in an the grated floor mid estehLish a preferred,

position in space technology. Aenerally speaking, this is a healthful

situation; however, it presents another problem which faces the Air

Pores and other federal agencies involved in spacie vox* today. This

problem is neither no nor startling but it does promise to be more

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Intense thenIn the recent put. I radar to the problem of selactIng

the proper programs, cut of the may that are ereilable, to assure

that the notion's politioal and military postures are favorable.

As we mar earlier we ere in a rapidly mug technology and

tinder such camlitions we rill find many pressures arising on all sides

to alter existing programs with new innovations or to annul programs

in favor of never and completely dittemeat soneepts. It is obvious

that we moist naintela a sufficient degree of ilsotibdl ity in our

planning to accommodate signifies* product laprovement breektbsoughp

however, a ecat changing props* that etteeWts to keep

pees with the latest teohnologioal Innovation will never coma to

fruition. Ile therefore Mat reeogaise that we ars in a situation

where pressures will originate not only tree eameeptmel and inehodeel

advisements but also from en latemamtionel polities& souse. It is

now sod will muting. to be a challenging and %difficult job to

respond to these intInenoes and at the sem tine assure that the

natian gets its true dollar value in team of demise espability.

In this regard although ea ere still predominantly in an era

of envied aircraft, strategic delivery systems; beams of weapon

system development lead tines, saes of us lied OUZINIIIIMI in a

position of taking actions of an BAD nature that clearly shape the

force structure of the future. Mile the Mr Faroe will undoubtedly

rely, for a long time to cam, on the nixed delivery form concept,

ve mist keep alert to recognise and react to the used for delicate

shifts (in either direction) to maintain the proper balance in our
Inventory of seepoas. As tine goes on there be an

increasing amber of exotic and attractive strategic system and

it idli became more difficult to daternine owl maintain the

proper force balance. Vs smut, in discharging oar responsibilities

as responsible federal ottleials, assure that our actions as based,

on sound assessment of the proper polities& military and technical

factors.