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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 22, 1962
Kennedy Replies to Russian Joint Aid Space Proposal
By Stewart Hensley
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—President Kennedy's first proposals to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev for Russian-American cooperation in outer space may call for joint work on weather and communications satellites.
KENNEDY SAID he was instructing American officials to "prepare new and concrete proposals for immediate projects of common action." Officials said a weather prediction program and satellite communications system probably would be suggested.
The President sent Khrushchev a message last night proposing that U.S. and Russian officials meet at a "very early date" to discuss practical methods for pooling space explorations.
The message was an unusually quick reply to Khrushchev's congratulations on astronaut John Glenn's orbital flight and the Soviet leader's call for pooling of scientific, technical and material efforts to explore outer space.
Officials said Kennedy wanted to test the sincerity of Khrushchev's proposal as quickly as possible. They said the president most likely would suggest a meeting of Soviet and American technical experts to consider specific problems in any joint undertaking.
WESTERN OBSERVERS in Moscow said the Khrushevchev message appeared to be "strictly a propaganda gesture." They pointed out that there was no indication it was a specific proposal.
The White House made public Kennedy's reply only a few hours after the President had told his news conference that he found the Khrushchev message "most encouraging."
The President told Khrushchev that he welcomed his statement that their countries should cooperate in space exploration. Kennedy said he
had long held the same belief and noted he had advanced the idea in his first state of the union message last year.
In that message, Kennedy invited all nations to join the United States in developing weather and communications satellites and in preparing for distant space probes to Mars and Venus.
KENNEDY TOLD Khrushchev that he believed in strong support of the United Nations in the space field, but conceded that "special opportunities and responsibilities fall to our two countries."
At his news conference, Kennedy said the United States stood ready to cooperate with Russia "to assure that space is peaceful and can be used for the benefit of everyone."
He made it clear, however, that it would take deeds to convince him of Russia's sincerity. When newsmen asked about the possibility of a joint mission to the moon, Kennedy said:
"All we have so far is an indication of interest and we know from long experience that it is more difficult to transform these general expressions into specific agreements."
THE PRESIDENT SAID this country had long taken the position that "when men reach beyond this planet they should leave their national differences behind them." He said the United States was ready to discuss space cooperation "bilaterally, in the United Nations, or in any other form."
Asked if this government would expect to have observers at Soviet launchings under any cooperative program, Kennedy said that "if there is any cooperation it must be wholly bi-lateral."
The President, in response to a question, said there had been no evidence in the past 12 months to support confident expectation that Russia was ready for "this kind of cooperation." He said Russia had not furnished the United States with
any technical data on its manned space flights except for generally known information.
But, he added, "perhaps the prospects are improving." He commented, "We, I might say, now have more chips on the table than we did some time ago."
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