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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 15:48:00 EST
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From:  Robert Maas 

(I saw an AP story in the Peninsula Times-Tribune which used the cute
 phrase "Tip of the asteroid" to compare 3 billion dollars per year
 currently earned from communication satellites with hundreds of
 billions of dollars earned from space by the year 2010. I then tried
 to retrieve that story from the AP archive here, but couldn't find
 it. I found this instead.)

a017  0007  29 Oct 84
PM-Lunar Conference, Bjt,0544
Scientists Gathering to Discuss Mankind's Return to the Moon
Eds: Prenoon EST lead likely
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Although the United States is only barely embarked
on building a space station, several hundred scientists and engineers
gathered today to discuss space projects to follow - particularly the
establishment of a permanent base on the moon.
    ''I believe it highly likely that before the first decade of the
next century is out, we will, indeed, return to the moon,'' said
James M. Beggs, the head of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, in remarks prepared for the opening of the three-day
conference.
    ''We will do so,'' he said, ''not only to mine its oxygen-rich rocks
and other resources, but to establish an outpost for further
exploration and expansion of human activities in the solar system, in
particular, on Mars and the near-Earth asteroids.''
    The symposium, sponsored by NASA, is being held at the National
Academy of Sciences. It is part of an effort to decide the direction
of space exploration after an $8 billion permanent manned station is
put in orbit around 1992. The space station, declared a national goal
by President Reagan, is only in the preliminary design stage now.
    Other speakers scheduled for the opening session were George
Keyworth, the president's science adviser; Walter Hickel, former
secretary of Interior; Harrison Schmitt, a moon-walking astronaut and
former senator; and Arthur Kantrowitz, a physicist and professor of
engineering at Dartmouth College.
    Last April, a small working group met in Los Alamos, N.M., and
examined the unique scientific experiments that could be carried out
at a lunar base, the potential development of the moon's resources
for industrial and space transportation; the problems of man's living
and working on the moon; the technological and scientific
requirements for a lunar base, and the economic, political and legal
problems that would be faced.
    The group termed industrial development ''a compelling component of
a lunar base,'' adding:
    ''The first base could be mainly a demonstration of industrial
promise. It is an excellent arena in which to test our faith in our
ability to adapt the resources of space for our needs in space.''
    Twelve American astronauts walked on the moon during the Apollo
program of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The last of those
missions, Apollo 17, was in December 1972 and no human has been on
the moon since.
    ''A whole generation of people is coming of age, not only in the
United States, but around the world, who are barely able to remember
that it was once thought impossible to go to the moon,'' said Beggs.
    ''We now know that we can get there. The question is, what should we
be doing if we establish permanent roots there, to make our presence
most productive and beneficial to mankind?''
    Beggs said he hoped America's friends and allies will join in the
space station effort and lay the groundwork for further international
cooperation.
    ''An internationally developed lunar base,'' he said, ''might even
prove an irresistable lure to the Soviets.''
    The Soviets have said that once they have developed a permanent
space station, they would like to use it as a jumping off place to
establish a research base on the moon.
    
AP-NY-10-29-84 0306EST
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a055  0530  29 Oct 84
PM-Late News Advisory,0074
    Editors:
    The Supreme Court meets at 10 a.m. EST to issue orders.
    
    We plan prenoon tops on these Washington-dated stories:
    -PM-Lunar Conference, a017.
    -PM-Deficit Commission, a024.
    
    We are going to update the PMs political roundup each day around 11
a.m. EST, if not before. We will provide new tops for events that
merit such treatment; other writethrus will contain updated material
lower in the story.
    
    The AP
    
AP-NY-10-29-84 0829EST
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a072  0756  29 Oct 84
PM-Lunar Conference, 1st Ld, a017,0261
Eds: Updates with opening of conference
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Although the United States is only barely embarked
on building a space station, several scientists and engineers
gathered today to discuss space projects to follow - particularly the
establishment of a permanent base on the moon.
    ''The lunar base is one of the more obvious of the goals we can
reach,'' George A. Keyworth, President Reagan's science adviser, told
the opening of the three-day conference.
    He said that before such a project is started decisions must be made
on where it will lead and why.
    ''Remember, much of the momentum of our space program was lost after
Apollo because we treated the moon as an end to itself,'' Keyworth
said.
    Walter Hickel, secretary of the interior in the Nixon administration
and a former governor of Alaska, called the Apollo moon missions a
''glorious elevation of the human spirit in our society,'' and added
that ''that kind of inspiration doesn't come along very often.''
    ''A return to the moon would be a rational extension of our program
to expand human activities in space,'' said James M. Beggs, the head
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
    He said that a generation of people who have grown up in the space
age will be in a decision-making role and ''they will be expecting
benefits and pragmatic results'' from space ventures.
    He forecast that it is highly likely that in the next 25 years the
United States will return to the moon.
    ''We will, 3rd graf
    
AP-NY-10-29-84 1054EST
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