This study incorrectly maintained that there are no prospective military missions for the NASP.

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Subsequently, the NASP program has encountered the bureaucratic equivalent of the perils of Pauline.

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Strong support should also be given to efforts to identify and elaborate mission applications for the NASP.

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In addition to its recommendations on the NASP, the paper addresses needed changes in a variety of civilian, military and commercial space programs.

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What is more, in addition to its direct returns, NASP also will provide technological spin-offs of virtually incalculable value to other civilian and military applications.

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My own testimony will, I hope, complement theirs by focussing on some of the more significant policy aspects of the NASP program as they have developed in recent months.

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We at the Center for Security Policy believe it imperative that the technology involved in the NASP be pursued as vigorously as the state of the art will permit.

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Perhaps most important of all, the Council will, henceforth, oversee and pass on funding for NASP, rather than such decisions being effectively the sole prerogative of the involved agencies.

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It is not overstating the case to suggest that the technologies being explored in the NASP program are likely to be determinative of future comparative advantage in the aerospace industry.

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