7024A: CAPE KENNEDY :EFFECTS OF THE SPACE RUNDOWN

Having spent 24 billion dollars on the Apollo programme

to get men to the moon, the United States

government is now beginning to scale down America's

space programme. NASA's budget has fallen from $6

billion in 1966 to a little over half that this year. At the

Kennedy Space centre, thousands have been laid off

and the local authorities are trying to promote tourism

to replace space as a revenue earner. Beaches and

inland waterways are being developed and at Orlando

a vast new pleasure ground, Disney World, is due to

open in October next year.

SHOWS:

Paine on latest NASA projects requiring fewer men.

7024A: CAPE KENNEDY :EFFECTS OF THE SPACE RUNDOWN

Having spent 24 billion dollars on the Apollo programme

to get men to the moon, the United States

government is now beginning to scale down America's

space programme. NASA's budget has fallen from $6

billion in 1966 to a little over half that this year. At the

Kennedy Space centre, thousands have been laid off

and the local authorities are trying to promote tourism

to replace space as a revenue earner. Beaches and

inland waterways are being developed and at Orlando

a vast new pleasure ground, Disney World, is due to

open in October next year.

SHOWS:

Paine on latest NASA projects requiring fewer men.