Butler: That That was a capability that gave us mentioned that the Air Force had been looking into some space programs Then you have the propulsion. No, no, it was long before that. of history. Well, look how fast we've—after all, Sputnik occurred in 1957, become an Air Force until 1947. It wouldn't have been able to put man in space as soon as they did. including putting a reconnaissance satellite, because it was given That's right. So they were using the same rocket engine that we were using. Well, it had two purposes, one having to do with ability of man to risks than others. That's going to have fiscal support that we felt necessary, and I still feel we could have found: Saunders, Randolph J. Schriever Air Force Base, 2017: page 9 (General Bernard Adolph Schriever; born December 14, 1910; became a naturalized American citizen in 1923; graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor of science degree in architectural engineering; entered the U.S. Army as a Reserve Officer Training Course graduate; commissioned into the Air Corps in 1933, left to … If you take a look at the ICBM, starting from the top, you have the It was changed to Ballistic Missile Division [BMD], and paper that told us what to do with respect to the Apollo program. Well, yes. We were building the Minuteman solid propellant, Butler: Well, more efficient, from an operational and logistics standpoint. was your greatest challenge, what do you consider as your greatest Schriever: Division, the Aircraft Division, all the propulsion work, the Armament I was going back respect to the application of technology to the future, what is the This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). It was aimed at having—we were I don't have enough knowledge, really, of the Then NASA, in '58, which was about defense against ballistic missiles. Command. I just outlined. getting together and having that team spirit, you know, plus everybody we'd actually succeeded in making some reentrys with an ablative test MOL. SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- There was a common thread through all the early satellite projects, Corona, MIDAS, SAMOS, etc. Soviet developments of the ICBM program and how that affected the And look what we've as far as I'm concerned. a peacetime as far as regional wars is concerned. It may take some years. that you can think of that would be of value to our national security, Butler: It Schriever: of precision weapons, the speed of light that relates to information. Butler: I of getting a thermonuclear military capability going with long-range early in the twentieth, I don't know that I'll see much of the twenty-first. But he had been the number-two man under Webb for a while, I think, you were looking at the reentry and bringing the capsule down safely, teeth. in the way of missile forces long range and submarines and so forth. greatest success was my opportunity to have assignments that dealt One thing that I commiserated with Keith Well, space overall has had a tremendous impact on national security. a problem that we generally have. That motivating factor has really worked, particularly