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Show rr Americans Lose Space Enthusiasm i By LOUIS HARRIS Most space station. The key to public opposition to the space program is money. Even after the successful moon landing, by 47 to 44 per cent people are against four billion dolcommitting lars a year for the next ten years to explore fte moon and other planets in outer space. As a space spectacular, the American people enjoyed the show. are Americans opposed to sending men to land on Mars, by a margin of 48 to 41 per cent. So deep does public aversion to government spending run these days that even the Mars mission meets with substantial public resistance. despite the success of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Other possible next steps for the space program also meet with a negative public But when all the euphoria was over, the sober second thoughts of the American people were to question whether it was all worth it. After two years, during which a majorisaid they ty consistently opposed the moon landing, a rather slim majority of 53 per cent finally said, after the fact, that the money was well ' spent. As to the future, however, the outlook among most Americans must be classified reaction: By 49 to 33 per cent, most people oppose putting a permanent U.S. space station up in space with men in it. By 50 to 35 per cent, most are against putting a scientific exploration station with men in it on the moon. By 47 to 40 per cent, the public says it is opposed to making a permanent station in space a United Nations space event than to participate with their tax money. In a recent survey, 51 per cent picked space as the first place to cut government spending. It was lines. The issue of going to Mars illustrates the polarization which has taken place groups. educated, The younger, more affluent people are able to see in their own mind's eye a definite and immediate identification of further space exploration with the quest of man to extend his frontiers of knowledge. For them, it is an intellectual goal with emotional overtones. For the less priviledged, less well educated, unaffluent, space is a spectacular feat, thrilling for the moment, but, once over, not worth continued drains on their pinched cent). The key to public reaction to the space program is that in exploring new frontiers of human discovery, the fruits of the exploration do not seen) to bear any direct or intimate relation to the lives of the average American. People can identify with the astronauts, can even feel they walked with the men on the moon, e may-hav- Friday, August 29, 1969 A5 ANC ' x ' ' 'V ,s better on the list for cutbacks by the Vietnam war (64 per cent) and foreign aid (69 per What might have been viewed as a positive source of national pride and unity turns out not to be that at all. The single experience of watching men walk on the moon been exciting and uplifting. But it Is now apparent that most Americans would rather be spectators o a NEWS, earth seem unchanged after is the exultant experience over. Perhaps the most significant divisions over space are those along age and education OPINION ANALYSIS as dim and discouraging for those who are trying to continue the space program. 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