Electronics Weekly
So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 12th 1960.
The story continues:
This support does not spring from anticipation of Jucrative government contracts. The survey,,which was conducted by The Harvard Business Review, included some 2,000 administrators and professional men spread throughout the American business community. Less than 30 per cent of these are presently involved or likely to be involved with the space programme.
As Prof. Raymond A. Bauer of the Harvard Business School explains in the September-October issue of the Review, the support for space research appears to spring from a general respect for scientific research and recognition of space as a challenging new research frontier.
It has also been encouraged by the prospects for practical use of space which have been dramatically illustrated by the first Tiros (weather), Transit (navigational), and Echo (communications) satellites.
Seventy-five per cent of those queried approved a sentence stating that space research ” will have profound and revolutionary effects on our economic growth.”
Seventy-three per cent opted for space research when asked: “Leaving out military considerations, which would you consider mire important – space research or cutting taxes.
