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from this apce center alone.
To be sure all this costs us money. This
year's space budget is three times what it was on
January of 1961. And it is greater than the space
budget of the 8 previous years combined. That
budget now stands at $5.4 billion a year -- a
staggering sum, although somewhat less than what
this Nation spends each year on cigars and
cigarettes. Space expenditures, moreover, will
soon rise -- from 404 per person per week to more
than 504 per man, woman and child.
For we have given this program a high
national priority -- we are behind, and we have
far to go before we are ahead. That money,
I
pledge you, is being spent as wisely as possible
by the ablest men I could find. I have taken this
trip to help ascertain whether we are doing all
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