There is no longer doubt that space exploration holds genuine
significance for the security and well-being of the United States as a
nation.
It does so in at least three ways. One results from the uses which our
Armed Forces can make of the knowledge gained from space exploration. A
second results from the influence and prestige which America can exert
within the world community because of her prowess in space exploration.
A third results from the possibility that space exploration, eventually,
may prove so immense and important a challenge that it will channel the
prime energies of powerful nations toward its own end and thus reduce
the current emphasis on developing means of destruction.
The first two values definitely exist. The third seems to be a
reasonable hope.