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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:
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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.
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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
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