ee ae LA A> COPE Pr te "are : Se 7 : é eg . “en meen mie) + al 1 is” Mody ee fen Yii ‘eee Scat NOTE (Continued) - The President also directed that the Departments of State and Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff "jointly make the continuing study required by par- agraph 44 of NSC 5803, reporting the results of such study to the Council, through the NSC Plan-~ ning Board, as appropriateand prior to July, 1958. 5. U. 8. SCIENTIFIC SATELLITE PROGRAM Use 5520; NS@ Actions Nos. 1656, 1713 and 1846) General Cutler introduced the subject, and asked Secretary Quarles to make his report. The President, however, turned to Secretary Quarles and said he assumed the latter's report to the Couneil would have in it very little classified information. If this were the case, he thought Secretary Quarles should make his report to the whole Cabinet rather than to the National Security Council, because all the members of the Cabinet were eager to hear this report. Secretary Quarles replied that nothing he had proposed to say would be inappropriate for the Cabinet to hear. The President then spoke briefly of the proposals which Dr. Killian wes preparing. Dr. Killian in turn pointed out that there were alternative programs for launching our earth satellites if Project VANGUARD should prove a failure, end he believed that these alternatives were likely to be successful. The President then inquired whether we were planning missiles that would either launch moch larger satellites or reach to the moon. In reply, Secretary Quarles briefly enumereted the vart- ous enfines with thrusts of between 300,000 pounds and a million pounds. The National Security Council: a. Noted that, at the President's request, the report by the Deputy Secretary of Defense on the orbiting of the U. 8S. satellite "Explorer", and comments there- on by the Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, would be presented at the next meeting of the Cabinet instead of to the National Security Council. Ig ( Noted that, at the President's direction, the Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology would submit to the Council early in March his recommendations as to legitimate U. 5. objectives with respect to space exploration and science; and that this ARN Pam RR Em Em TOP SECRET ai WUE Oy pd! | Papers 1953-61 Fa igenhower: