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HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON S< IENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



ploration of outer space, ' ' as well as joint cooperation in the advance- 

 ment of scientific developments through communications, weather 

 forecasting, and other means. Chairman McCormack used winged 

 words to urge passage of his resolution: 



In this last fateful year we have been privileged to witness man's first faltering 

 steps horn his cradle, Earth. I hope that we shall all live to see these faltering steps 

 become giant strides as man journeys far into the starlit cosmic spaces in the explora- 

 tion of the unknown and toward the promise of new worlds and new knowledge. 



Representative James G. Fulton (Republican of Pennsylvania), left, and Ambassador 

 George J. Feldman, at the United Nations General Assembly, where they served as delegates. 



Republicans and Democrats alike, including a future President 

 of the United States (Representative Gerald R. Ford), spoke out for 

 the resolution which was unopposed despite the fear of recent Soviet 

 space successes. Congress also wrote into the basic Space Act of 1958 

 language which unmistakably dedicated the National Aeronautics 

 and Space Administration to a civilian-controlled accent on the use of 

 space for peaceful purposes: 



The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that 

 activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all 

 mankind. 



The Congress also wrote into the Space Act that one of NASA's 

 objectives should be "cooperation by the United States with other 

 nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this act and 



