ABSTRACT
The Subcommittee concluded that the satellite was not yet a weapon, the Soviet Union had led the world into outer space, and it was now essential for the United States to make a tremendous effort to orga nize the resources for achieving preeminence in space. A finding was that the "same forces, the same knowledge, and the same technology which are producing ballistic missiles can also produce instruments of peace and universal cooperation": communications, meteorology, navigation, and remote sensing. The responsibilities of the Subcommittee were limited to defense and it was necessary to create a special committee to handle the civilian aspects of space legislation.''
