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Conference 7.286::space

Title:Space Exploration
Notice:Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:PRAGMA::GRIFFIN
Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:974
Total number of notes:18843

798.0. "NASA mourns loss of Thomas O. Paine" by PRAGMA::GRIFFIN (Dave Griffin) Tue May 05 1992 23:34

    Sue Richard
    Headquarters, Washington, D.C.          May 5, 1992
     
    N92-41:  NOTE TO EDITORS
     
            Upon learning of the death of Dr. Thomas O. Paine,
    the third Administrator of NASA, NASA Administrator Daniel
    S. Goldin issued the following statement:
     
            "The Agency mourns the death of Tom Paine, an
    outstanding American. Over the years, I had the privilege of
    working with Tom personally.  I found him to be a man of
    vision and integrity.  Tom's leadership of NASA through the
    first several moon landings was nothing short of exemplary
    and later as Chairman of the National Commission on Space in
    the mid-1980s, his direction of this Presidentially
    appointed graoup formulated a bold agenda to carry America's
    civilian space enterprise into the 21st century.
     
            Within the past six months, the nation has been
    saddened by the passing of three former NASA Administrators
    - Jim Fletcher in December, Jim Webb in February and now Tom
    Paine. Their accomplishments and legacies will long endure."
     
                           -end-
    
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798.1Details on Thomas PaineVERGA::KLAESAll the Universe, or nothing!Wed May 06 1992 17:3880
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Subj:	NASA Headline News for 05/06/92 (Forwarded)

             Headline News
Internal Communications Branch (P-2) NASA Headquarters

  Wednesday, May 6, 1992  Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788

This is NASA Headline News for Wednesday, May 6, 1992 . . .

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Thomas Otten Paine, NASA's third Administrator and a principal
architect of this nation's space program, died of cancer at his home
in Brentwood, Los Angeles, this past Monday.  Paine, who led NASA
during the Apollo lunar mission era, was 70.  Born in Berkeley,
Calif., in 1921, Paine graduated from Brown University in 1942 with an
AB in Engineering.  He then joined the Navy submarine service and saw
action in the South China Sea during the Second World War. Following
the war, he earned a doctorate in Physical Metallurgy from Stanford
University and joined the General Electric Company.  Paine worked for
GE for 25 years before President Johnson appointed him as NASA Deputy
Administrator, under James Webb.  When Webb retired, Paine became
Administrator.  Paine returned to GE in 1970 and later, in 1976,
became president of Northrup Corp.  He retired from Northrup in 1982,
but was back at the space policy helm in 1985 when President Reagan
asked him to chair the National Commission on Space. 

In 1990, Paine was appointed to the Advisory Committee on the Future
of the U.S. Space Program and a year later was named to the U.S. Space
Policy Advisory Board.  Paine is survived by his wife of 46 years
Barbara, and their two daughters, Marguerite Matthews and Judith
Paine, and two sons George and Frank Paine.  NASA Administrator Daniel
Goldin remarked yesterday that Paine "was a man of vision and
integrity," and that Paine's 1985 National Commission work would carry
the civilian space enterprise into the 21st century. 

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on 
NASA Select TV.  Note that all events and times may change 
without notice, and that all times listed are Eastern. 

Wednesday, May 6, 1992

   12:00 pm  Pre-Launch Press Conference with Space Shuttle 
                   Director Leonard Nicholson, Intelsat Engineering 
                   Vice President Pierre Madon, Kennedy Space Center 
                   Launch Director Bob Sieck, and Weather Officer Ed Priscelac.
    1:00 pm  NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin will address employees.
    2:00 pm  Commercial Payloads Briefing with Dr. Marianna 
                   Long, Associate Director for Commercial Development 
                   at the University of Alabama.
    3:00 pm  Taped replay of briefing on shuttle Endeavour, 
                   originally presented in April.
    4:00 pm  Taped playback of Senate Science, Technology and 
                   Space Subcommittee (Chairman Albert Gore, D-Tenn.) 
                   hearing on Landsat.

Thursday, May 7, 1992

   10:00 am  Countdown status briefing with Eric Redding, 
                   NASA Test Director, Todd Corey, Mission Operations 
                   Engineer, and Mike Adams, Weather Officer.
    7:06 pm  Scheduled liftoff time for Endeavour's STS-49 mission.
    7:30 pm  (approx.) Administrator Daniel Goldin will hold a news 
                   conference at KSC Press Center.
    8:06 pm  (approx.) Post-launch news conference with Launch 
                   Director Bob Sieck.
  
This report is filed daily at noon, Monday through Friday.  It is a
service of NASA's Office of Public Affairs.  The editor is Charles
Redmond, 202/453-8425 or CREDMOND on NASAmail. NASA Select TV is
carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West
Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier
is 6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical. 

798.2A Paine speech from 1990VERGA::KLAESLife, the Universe, and EverythingSun Jun 06 1993 15:53366
Article: 64427
From: [email protected] (Ken Hayashida)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Dr. Thomas Paine on space policy Part 1
Date: 5 Jun 1993 18:02:40 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: [email protected]
 
Friends, over the past few weeks we have been seeing alot of 
conjecture posted regarding the future of the US space program.  
Perhaps, one of the greatest leaders that the civilian space program 
has had is Dr. Thomas Paine.
 
Dr. Paine served as NASA administrator under the Johnson and Nixon
Administrations, led the National Commission on Space appointed by
President Reagan to foresee a future for the US space program, and was
highly involved with the space advocacy community. 
 
During the proceedings of the National Commission on Space Dr. 
Paine gave me the opportunity to present some ideas before his 
esteemed committee.  Through several years of limited contact I 
found Dr. Paine to be cordial, always enthusiastic, and quite an 
inspiration.  As an undergraduate student, this ex-
admiral and advisor to Presidents took the time to speak with me on
numerous occasions, answering my phone calls and messages, and 
sending me references.  His staff assistant was equally cooperative.
 
I was profoundly saddened to hear of his passing during the past year 
(as I am sure alot of you were), and I believe that we have lost 
a tremendous intellect and leader.
 
Because of my debt of gratitude and my desire that his views
continue to gain attention, I am posting exerpts from a speech which 
Dr. Paine made before the 28th Goddard Memorial Symposium, held 
March 14-16, 1990, Washington, D.C.
 
Those of you that wish to read the entire speech can find it in the 
following reference:

Leaving the Cradle:  Human Exploration of Space in the 21st Century
28th Goddard Memorial Symposium; edited by Thomas O. Paine; 
Volume 78, Science and Technology Series, A Supplement to 
Advances in the Astronautical Sciences; copyright 1991, American 
Astronautical Society; ISBN 0-87703-336-6 (hard cover), 
ISBN 0-87703-337-4 (soft cover), published by Univelt, 
Incorporated; P.O. Box 28130, San Diego, CA 92198.
 
In the text below I have added "..." when I have deleted text.
When paragraphs are deleted, I will so designate.
 
This entire volume is packed with great presentations and testimony,
including Al Gore, Harrison Schmitt, and others.  I encourage any
interested in space policy and exploration to obtain a copy. 
 
------------
And now, exerpts from AAS 90-101, titled "Leaving the Cradle:  
Human Exploration of Space in the 21st Century,"  by Thomas O. Paine
 
"Thank you very much, Larry, and welcome.
 
We're meeting at an extermely interesting time in the history of the 
space program and I think in many ways in the history of our 
planet...One of the reasons we are meeting here today and examining 
many of the precepts underlying the exploration of space is because 
these are such critical, pivotal times that all of our new thinking is 
going to be required to make sure that we come out in the end with a 
successful program.
 
(paragraph omitted)
 
We need more of that kind of thinking as we take a look at the Mars 
Program and decide, on the basis of what we will want to do in 
perhaps the second decade of the next century on Mars to figure out 
what we should be doing on the Moon in the first decade, and what 
we should be doing in Earth orbit during the decade of the 90's.  So 
this afternoon, we're going to look at some of the challenges that 
Mars represents.  I think that that can cast a very long shadow 
through the 90's.
 
One of the things that I think we will also have to do some brand 
new thinking about is the whole question of the international 
participation in space in the next two or three decades...
 
Back in the 1960's when I was concerned with NASA, we had a rather 
simple rule:  If the budget was in trouble, wave the Russian flag.  
That's not the way it's going to work in the future.  We think much 
more carefully about how this is going to go.
 
(paragraph omitted)
 
I guess, what I'm really talking about, therefore, this morning is 
opportunity.  We have a magnificent opportunity and a very 
challenging opportunity, and as we meet in these very rapidly 
changing times, we need more than ever to be thinking 
of the fundamentals because if we're going to put together a program 
that will take us to Mars sometime in the first, second, third decade 
of the next century, it will have to require sustained effort.  We're 
going to see Presidents come and go.  Congresses will have many 
different concerns.  There will be all sorts of crises, alarms, 
excursions, and during all of this period, we will have to have the 
exploration of space on such a firm philosophical and technological 
basis that it can indeed attract the type of sustained support that 
will be required not only in the United States but in the world.  It's a 
magnificant challenge and, I think, one that we are ready for...
 
Please see part 2 for the continuation...
 

Article: 64429
From: [email protected] (Ken Hayashida)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Tom Paine- Why Space (Part 2)
Date: 5 Jun 1993 18:08:48 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: [email protected]
 
this is a continuation of Dr. Tom Paine's speech before the
28th Goddard Memorial Symposium, published with the AAS in
"Leaving the Cradle".
 
In this part of the speech, Dr. Paine discusses reasons to advocate space
and the philosophical underpinnings of space exploration.
 
_________________
"My own rationale for why we are going this is that you can't come up 
with any one reason, and if you ever tried, it would very quickly 
become obsolete anyway, and that furthermore, space by its very 
inherent nature is something so fundamental to the human drive for 
exploration that, at any given time in the history of our country 
and in the history of the world, we would come up with a different 
rationale as the times change, but that the fundamentals 
would always be there.  So I think the challenge we have is to try to 
understand the exploration of space in terms of these fundamentals.
 
One example I might give you is that if we were indeed meeting one 
hundred years ago to discuss the exploration of space--that would 
be in the 1880's -- very likely one of the fundamental rationales 
would be colonization, because strength of the ohrld scene was 
really related to the number of colonies that any nation controlled.  
It would be on a highly commpetitive basis, and we wouldn't want 
the British Empire, with all of those parts of the world painted red, 
to start painting the Moon or Mars red, would we?  We'd want to take 
our colonial holdings in the Phillipines which we were about to 
acquire in the next twenty years and we'd want to become a great 
colonial power, too.  That was the big deal in the end of the last century.
 
If we'd moved out a little beyond that another quarter century or so, 
it would be in terms of military power.  The great fleets were being 
built that would later fight in Jutland.  Submarine were being 
developed to deny the British their long domination of the seas.  
These were the kinds of concerns nations had, and we'd ask the 
question, how our power in space would contribute to this kind of 
national power aimed at World War I and, then later, World War II.  
Question the Depression, and it would be jobs.  Can we indeed use 
this as a WPA Project?  Today, you talk about missile/bomber 
builders and fighter plane builders reconverting and doing this as a 
kind of a make-work project.
 
Again, I think all of these are not really good reasons.  There are far 
more fundamental reasons....
 
(2 paragraphs deleted- Dr. Paine talked about upcoming speakers)
 
....we've been able to get a very broad representation of experts 
looking at this from different perspectives.
 
I think that for everything we do in space we need to get this broad 
perspective.  Space is very much like the blind man and the 
elephant...(sentence deleted)...this is like the fellow holding the tail 
of the elephant, saying, "Hey, it's a long, stringy thing," trying to 
talk to the engineer who's trying to build a new launch vehicle 
who's got a hold of the ear saying, "No, it's a great big flat thing," 
and somebody else worrying about tusks and trying to convince 
people that's what the Space Program is.
 
(several paragraphs omitted)
 
....We've had a series of relatively weak Presidents in the grand 
sweep of our nation, concerns that were very much with the 
problems of yesterday and today and not much left over for the 
problems of tomorrow, which is where those of us in this room 
pretty much keep our own thoughts and attention.
 
I was very pleased, therefore, when the Congress created the
National Commission on Space...And I think that that allowed us to 
take a breather back in the 1986 period to detach ourselves from the 
Space Program as it then existed and take a look twenty, thirty 
years out into the future and try to answer the question that 
Congress had put to us and that the President had appointed us to 
come up with an answer to, what the Space Program should be for 
Twenty-First Century America.
 
I think in many ways, that's the challenge that all of us in this room 
have still before us:  What should be the Space Program for the 
Twenty-First Century America?  In order to get your mind around it, 
I'll warn you right at the beginning that you have to decide what 
Twenty-First Century America is.  It certainly is not the America of 
1990.  It will be a different country with different concerns, and we 
have to think about the fact that it will be an extremely affluent, 
very high technology country, but a country which will probably not 
be in as leading a position in the world as it has been since World 
War II, a country that can lead other nations in a participatory 
sense, but only by selling the strength of its good ideas.
 
So think about Twenty-First Century America as you sit through the 
sessions that you'll be listening to for the next couple of days.  
Think about the kind of a Space Program that will be appropriate for 
Twenty-First Century America as we did on our Commission.  We 
thought at the time that we were probably going to be criticized 
after our report came out for being too far-out for the first ten 
years, and we thought that probably in the second ten years, which 
would be '96 to about 2006, it would be considered about right, and 
that from 2006 on, it would be considered too pedestrian.  I think we 
are about on that track now.
 
One of the things that you also put your mind to when you think about 
the Twenty-First Century America is the fundamental objective that 
humanity as a whole will accept during that period as being worthy 
of major international projects.  I think in that connection that all 
of us in this room and all of the people who think about space are 
very conscious of the connection between space and environmental 
concerns...
 
(several paragraphs deleted)
 
I think that from all of these various factors that come into the 
Space Policy question, which our Keynote Speaker has been invited 
to address, you can see the complexity of it and you can see the fact 
that our program, as broad as it is, probably isn't broad enough.  But 
it will give us, I think, considerable breadth.
 

Article: 64430
From: [email protected] (Ken Hayashida)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Dr. Paine- Budgeting for space & why (part 3)
Date: 5 Jun 1993 18:14:13 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: [email protected]
 
In this last of 3 posts, Dr. Paine's views on budgeting and
why we go to space are made clear.
 
_______________
"The meeting that was held in Mark Albrecht's Space Council about 
last November was for me a remarkable eent.  Jack Kerrebrock and I 
were there and toward the end, the Director of the Budget, Richard 
Darman, met with us and gave us the following statement which I 
thought was remarkable.  I've had a lot of interaction with OMB 
Directors and I regard them as the natural enemy of NASA types, and 
it was very interesting to hear him give us a very broad 
philosophical comment.  He said, as we look at the planning for the 
Bush Administration's Space Program and the mark that they would 
like to leave in their tenure in office, that we should think very 
broadly indeed about what should be done by the United States in 
concert with other nations in space, without restricting ourselves--
at least in the initial period, to problems of the budget.
 
He said that all of the money that we could possibly imagine how to 
spend in space was actually available in our wealthy nation.  We 
have, of course, a five trillion dollar gross national product which is 
exponentially growing.  We have a federal budget in the trillion and a 
quarter area, a budget which is undergoing great changes, and he 
pointed out that really our problem in deciding what to do in space 
will not be decided on the basis of whether we want to spend the 
money in the area of space.  Our challenge, he stated, was to put 
together a space program that would attract the funds.  The funds 
were certainly available, and I think also, if you spend the next 
couple days thinking about the future of space, that's the way you 
should look at it, too.  The problem is not that in our 5+ trillion 
dollar economy we can't afford space.  The question is, how much of 
that do we want to spend, and for what, and why?  So these are 
things we will be addressing and which are very relevant indeed.
 
....
I'd like to run through the broad spectrum of reasons why we want to 
go out into space and become a multi-planet species.
 
Number one is economics, the long-term investment in the economic 
development of the inner solar system.  This is something that can 
occupy us for a century...
 
The second is access to limitless growth potential, access to virgin 
continents that can remove the Malthusian limits to the aspirations 
of humanity and can cause us to move beyond a mere zero sum battle 
for which people on Earth control our dwindling resources and rather 
make it an open end, and opens up a vast new growth potential for 
humanity.
 
The next is national pride in leadership...
 
I thought the way Richard Darman put it from his budgetary 
perspective was very good.  He said, there are three types of things 
you spend money for in government.  One of them is paying for the 
things you did in the past; he must have been conscious of his 
interest payments for all the borrowings -- I think we 
owe some 3 trillion dollars now, and that's a fair amount of interest.  
But we have Veterans Administration, we have other costs 
associated with things we've done in the past, and those bills have 
to be settled.  And secondly, he said, there are things that we should 
be spending money on today -- all of the Head Start for the young 
children; all of the questions of housing; doing a much better job on 
our highway sytem, which has come up recently; the war on drugs; 
all of the things that we have to do today.  These are always the 
most popular with politicians.  So paying for the past, spending 
money on the present are the two leading items, and there's a little 
bit left over for investing in the future.  That, of course, is where 
the space program comes in, and thus national pride in leadership for 
investing in the future.
 
....there are religious, ideological, or humanistic values associated 
with a basic desire to preserve life....
 
....opportunity for a fresh start.
 
....of course research and exploration
 
.... search for extraterrestial intelligence
 
.... opportunity to create prototype extraterrestial communities in 
nearby space
 
(...paragraphs deleted)
 
NASA must develop six new challenging technology bases and 
program elements:

1  A highway to space, using economical joint NASA/USAF man-rated 
heavy-lift launch vehicles to provide regular automated low-cost 
access to Earth orbit

2.  Orbital space ports, evolved from International Space Station
Freedom technology, circling Earth, Moon, and Mars to support remote
human operations and the assembly, storage, repair, refueling,
check-out, launch, and recovery of robotic and piloted spacecraft 

3.  A bridge between worlds, to open regular transports to the Moon 
and to extend spaceflight to Mars...

4.  Prospecting and resource utilization sytems to map and 
characterize the resources on the inner solar system...

5.  Closed ecology biospheres to recycle air and water and provide 
food and organic products within Earth-like habitats of other worlds...

6.  Lunar and Martian bases to furnish advanced life-support, habitats...
 
Perhaps, my concluding remark ought to be the one I wrote you in a 
letter, a quote from my friend, Arthur Clarke, who said:  " In the 
difficult years that lie ahead, we must remember that the snows of 
Olympus lie silently beneath the stars, waiting for our grandchildren."
 
________
This concludes this 3 part series on the comments of the late- Dr. Thomas
Paine, former NASA Adminstrator and chairman of the National Commission
on Space.
 
Thank you Dr. Paine for your years of dedication to the concepts of
space exploration.
 
Ken
 
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