Dale.Amon@FAS.RI.CMU.EDU (11/02/85)
This last week I presented testimony at the NCS hearings in Cleveland. Among the other presentors was a Glenn staff member reading Sen. Glenn's position paper. Much was reasonable, but he made one statement which utterly horrified me, and I'm sure will equally horrify most of you. He suggested that rocket technology, because of it's potential use as ICBM's, be internationally regulated the way nuclear technology is. One twist of the pen, and you and I will never own a private spaceship. Admittedly, we probably wouldn't anyway, but at least we can dream. I would like to ask any of you who are as violently opposed to such a scheme as I am to write Senator Glenn and tell him that this is not a very good idea. Sen. John Glenn SH 503 Hart Senate Office Bldg Washington, DC 20510 Just imagine where aviation would be today if in the first part of this century it had been regulated like the nuclear industry. I have hopes that in the early teens of the next century, we will see spaceships owned by anyone of any race, creed, nation, minority, majority or political leaning who could buy a jet plane today.