MEMO FROM TO: Fred Singer TX
J. LEDERBERG Rc
GENETICS DEPARTMENT RO

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

Dear Fred: AUG 91 1969 .

 

If it were inevitable that a year-long
manned capability were developed and charged
te other needs, I could see some sense to
your argument. I am afraid it will go they
other way, and planetary exploration will be
the main justification for very large invest-~
ments @n nuclear propulsion and in a long-
lived MOL. Se when we already have the capa~
bility I will help you think of uses fpr it.

(Darwin did, I believem, parasitize the R.N.)

I realize.the extra burden of the prep
signa] delay, but I think you understate the
opportunities for manned control of the
instrumented flyby- from the ground. I also
think the technological spillover from this
kind of instrumentation is very much larger
thab from life support systems, (But one
could analyze that further.) As to local
manned analysis of data, we are muaxei surely
many $B away from the kind ef system you
would une send your best scientists on.

And once he's seen the Red Planet, how will
you keep him off of it? oe

Hew would you trade off a mamned flyby agnst
an-instrumented sample-retrieval: and be sure
to return it te the moon, not earth, if there
is any question about quqrantine.

O.