If we do not accept the challenge of manned space exploration, other nations will not wait for us to do so. The Soviet Mir station, and its successors, and the planned facilities to be developed by the European Space Agency and Japan for independent manned space flight will be used for important scientific and technological pursuits. The United States must decide whether its scientists and other space users are to be spectators or participants in this new phase of space exploration.
Mr. George Pritchard, 45, said yesterday he had quit as head of Greenpeace's nuclear campaign in Britain because he believed a realistic answer had to be found to nuclear waste disposal, and Greenpeace was not yet ready to work for it.
"My feeling is that if we don't find an answer, then the nuclear industry will find its own answer, and I believe that answer would be unacceptable," he ...
