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planet, in a state of so-called limited existence. A fusion truly opening up the entire Solar System to mankind.
science-driver crash program is essential to increasing What has been demonstrated here in the presenta-
the powers of a society’s productive abilities for prog- tion thus far, is the essential need for a fusion energy
ress, to an ever-higher level of per-capita existence. The crash program, as defined in LaRouche’s Four Laws
revival of a clearly defined national mission for our program, as the basis for human progress, and the free-
space program, would lay the basis for the development ing of mankind from a state of lower forms of bestial
of highly skilled productive work, which would pro- existence, to reach mankind’s fully human, creative po-
duce net returns, not merely in monetary accounting tential, as defined as absolutely superior to that of all
terms, but in the increase of the creative and productive lower species. LaRouche presents this as:
powers of the human mind. A system of federal credit,
as defined in LaRouche’s Third Law, will be absolutely The knowable measure, in principle, of the dif-
required to invest in long-term capital improvements of ference between man and all among the lower
the real economy, while the unleashing and rapid devel- forms of life, is found in what has been usefully
opment of the space program will create powerful net regarded as the naturally upward evolution of
returns through technological spin-offs, as we have wit- the human species, in contrast to all other known
nessed under the Apollo program before. categories of living species. The standard of
measurement of these compared relationships, is
Space Program Requires Fusion Power that mankind is enabled to evolve upward, and
Krafft Ehricke, a German-American space pioneer, that categorically, by those voluntarily noëtic
and a collaborator of Lyndon LaRouche, made remark- powers of the human individual will.
able contributions to the creation of our space program
and the development of the rockets and space craft that The stated program must be adopted immediately as
carried our astronauts to the moon. Ehricke was also the measure for improving the condition of life on the
very aware of the necessity for nuclear power and planet and beyond. We must define a new national and
fusion energy as the basis for efficient space travel and international economic platform that establishes peace-
colonization. He stated, “The universe is run by nuclear ful cooperation among nations, and puts an end to the
energy. Space will be conquered only by manned nu- drive for war once and for all. This is clearly repre-
clear-powered vehicles. Planning anything else for the sented through the policies of space exploration now
late 1960s is, in my opinion, flirting with obsolescence being defined by the nations of Russia and China, in
almost from the start. . . .” cooperation with other nations. Most emphatically, it is
Ehricke’s prophetic 1960 warning was absolutely China, in its course to develop spacecraft for landing on
correct. Today people are foolishly calling for manned the far side of the moon, which represents a total shift of
flights to Mars using chemical propulsion — a danger- unlimited potential for the progress of mankind. We
ous proposal which would subject astronauts to the must move now to put forward this urgently needed
harmful zero-gravity and high-radiation environment program for development and cooperation, and end
of space for many months at a time. Advanced fusion Obama’s continued attack on human progress.