ABSTRACT
president du bridge, in presenting the scientific and technological aspects of our problem of utilizing the resources of outer space, stresses his belief that the greatest resource to be obtained is knowledge. He warns that the planning of programs must be done by scientists and engineers and not by persons “whose only source of information is the comic strip.” I am not scientist nor engineer nor politician, although I may share the lack of expert knowledge of the last category. Yet I venture to ask the question which was the title of a book by my colleague Robert S. Lynd some years ago—“Knowledge for What?”
