rcraft industry, for example, is broadening its scope to
include missile and space technologies. Much of the electronics
industry is devoted to missile and space needs. The communications,
chemical, and metallurgical industries are increasingly involved.
These industries are already among the largest employers in the
United States, and they are the major employers of the Nation's
technical manpower. Hence we are not speaking of a minor element in
the national economy, but of its leading growth industries.[46]

This phase of the space program's value should not be eyed merely from
the standpoint of scientists and the labor market. It has major
significance for the professions--for doctors, lawyers, architects,
teachers, and engineers. All of these will be vitally concerned with
space exploration in the future. The doctor with space medicine and its
results; the lawyer with business relations and a vastly increased need
for knowledge in international law; the architect with the construction
of spaceports and data and tracking facilities; the teacher with the
booming demand for new types of space-engendered curricula.

As for the engineer--

In this pyramid of scientific and engineering effort there will be
found requirements for the services of almost every type of
scientist and engineer to a greater or less degree. In the
forefront, of course, are the aerospace and astronautical engineers
but the development of the Saturn launching vehicle has also
enlisted the cooperation of civil, mechanical, electrical,
metallurgical, chemical, automotive, structural, radio, and
electronics engineers. Much of their work relates to ground
handling equipment, special automotive and barge equipment,
checkout equipment, and all the other devices needed to support the
design, construction, testing, launching, and data gathering.[47]

AUTOMATION AND DISARMAMENT

Finally, an economic value of extreme importance could be the ultimate
role of the space program in modifying the threat to labor which is
inherent in automation and disarmament. Space exploration, opening up
new and profitable vistas, could take up much of the slack thus imposed
and do it at a higher and more intellectual job level.

Automation, as we know, is already in the process. In agriculture alone
it has bitten deeply into the laboring force and yet produces greater
crops than e