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 outer space; such as (a) continuation of the IGY, (b) further exchange of satellite tracking data, and (c) an effort to launch into space a scientific rocket or satellite designed and perhaps financed under international auspices. (Details of such agreements and the sequence in which they should be proposed or concluded must depend on developing space technology, the current political-strategic situation. and other factors.)

United States policy on research and development on outer space should not at this point be deferred or delayed pending the elaboration of an international agreement on legal status of outer space or a United States policy on legal aspects.

Space programs should not be formulated in scope and in intensity of effort as dictated by (a) military needs and requirements, (b) scientific needs, and (c) commercial needs, where they can be foreseen. It is unwise to insist that military end-uses must be foreseen at the present time in order ultimately to achieve useful military applications.

The United States should publicly welcome and encourage the general idea of international cooperation in scientific and commercial uses of space while reserving its freedom to accept, reject, or modify any particular form of such cooperation. The United States should give maximum appropriate publicity, directly and indirectly, to the scientific and commercial phases of its own space research and development, and should refrain from stressing any predominantly military purposes of space exploration, except as technical advance jeopardizes free world survival.