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From: ahiggins@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Dan Quayle on the Space Race
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Date: 18 Jan 89 23:25:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!ahiggins    Jan 18 17:25:00 1989


Shortly after the November election, there was a rather drawn out discussion
of Vice-President Elect Dan Qualye's stand on the civilian space program.
Unfortunately, no one seemed to have any concrete information on Qualye's
position.  I recently came across an article which makes him look like a 
promising chairman of the National Space Council.

Quayle wrote an article entitled,"The Other Space Race:  Space Science
Education," which appeared in the October 1988 issue of _Journal_of_Defense_
and_Diplomacy_.  He seemed *very* well informed and made several insightful
comparisons to the Soviet and Japanese programs.  His article dealt
predominately with a critical shortage of engineers and scientists in this
country and the effect this dearth would have on our space program.  To
quote Quayle,"It if fine to budget grand space programs, but if we do not
get on with educating the manpower, these programs will not be doable at
any cost."

Of course, Quayle cannot be judged on one article, but he looks very promising.
I suggest those who have criticized Quayle read this article before sounding
off again.
--
 Andrew J. Higgins	             | 	Illini Space Development Society
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