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(3) It may be feasible without increasing previously expected 1965
budget totals for NASA because of possible offsetting 1965 reductions that have
been identified in the regular budget review, as follows:
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(NOA in millions)
NASA estimates: MLLP All Other Total NASA
1964 4,129.7 1,220.3 5,350.0
1965 4,197.5 1,377.5 5,575.0
Total 8,327.2 21,597.8 10,925.0
Adjustments:
Possible 1965 adjustments in
Budget review –88.4* –313.8* –402.2*
Congressional 1964
reductions
Restoration in 1965 for
MLLP
–190.0* –60.0* –250.0
+190.0* - +190.0*
Revised totals:
1964 3,939.7* 1,160.3* 5,100.0
1965 4,299.1* 1,063.7* 5,362.8*
Total 8,238.8* 2,224.0* 10,462.8*
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*Tentative numbers; subject to change in final budget recommendations.
Recommendations
(Recommendation of Director, Bureau of the Budget, and concurrences
or differing recommendations of Secretary of Defense; Administrator, NASA;
Director, OST; and Executive Secretary, NASC, to be inserted after discussions)
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4. Should our posture on the manned lunar landing program attribute a
greater degree of military significance to the program?
Discussion: The review points to the conclusions that:
a. The facts of the situation justify the position that the launch vehicle,
spacecraft, facilities, and general technology being developed by NASA in the
MLLP do have important potential future military significance;