RESEARCH CONSULTANT/Life Sciences JUN 2 6 1964

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25 June 1964

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics
Stanford University Medical School
Palo Alto, California

Dear Elliott and Josh:

Trust you received the Soviet COSPAR Reports and found them
of some passing interest. Personally, I believe their manned space
flight program is slowing down because of funding problems rather
than the discovery of some esoteric biologic aftermath of zero
gravity. However, most of the local space medical savants here in
Mecca are convinced of the latter hypothesis, so I am probably

wrong, although I would concede the point more readily were there data
to substantiate it.

The letter to Colonel Keil sounded excellent to me as an opening
gambit and Al Hetherington assured me that they were open to good,
new, original approaches in the bio-instrumentation field. I found
the enclosure, "An Instrumentation Crisis in Biology" extremely inter-
esting even though my superficial knowledge of the field necessarily
limits my comprehension in any appreciable depth.

I'll bird dog further activities and interest levels at this
end regarding your proposal and at the same time be alert for any
other group moneys which might be looking for "good people and ideas"
to support in this exciting area.
With all good wishes and regards.
Sincerely,

Dow

Don Flickinger
Brig. General, USAF, Ret.

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INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS ® AMERICAN BOARD OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
INSTITUTE OF THE AEROSPACE SCIENCES e AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ® AEROSPACE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

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