Institute, and Booz Allen Applied Research Inc. As the president of his own small company in the late 1950's, he founded the international hobby and sport of “space modelling,” or model rocketry as it is known here; he founded the National Association of Rocketry, an affiliate of the National Aeronautic Association, and served for 11 years as the Chairman of the Space Model Subcommittee of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in Paris. He was consultant to CBS-TV Special Events for the Apollo lunar landings and is consultant for space launch vehicles to the National Air and Space Museum. He has seen the aerospace field from many viewpoints as civil service engineer, engineer for an aerospace firm, president of his own company, laboratory research director for an industrial firm, and currently marketing manager for an instrumentation firm in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and the British Interplanetary Society, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of the Committee on Pyrotechnics of the National Fire Protection Association. He has been a private pilot since 1946 and maintains his currency. He has been married since 1952 and resides at 616 West Frier Drive, Phoenix, Arizona 85021. TESTIMONY OF G. HARRY STINE, PHOENIX. ARIZ. Mr. Stine. Thank you, Senator Ford. Gentlemen, it is a privilege to address you this morning. I hope that I can add perhaps some perspective and perhaps a little philosophical background to the technical details of power-generating satellites that have been given here this morning. Because of the limitations of time that I had in preparing this testimony, plus the limited time to present it, I am not going to cover a lot of background detail on space industry that forms the subject matter of my recent book, “The Third Industrial Revolution.” I am going to be crass enough to assume the prerogative of the professor who writes a textbook and then quite naturally selects the textbook as the one his students must have for his class. In your letter asking me to testify, Senator, you have asked me why I believe that the development of solar power satellites to supply energy to the Earth is important. I will try to give several answers to this question, plus a cautionary note. For over a quarter of a century, which is most of my life, I have been interested in the future, both professionally and as a hobby. This has required that I stay as current as possible in many fields of science and technology, as well as the humanities. It has also required me to study as much history as possible, because you must know not only where you are, but how you got there. And when we chart a course into the unknown future, we must have all the data available. Now, one does not usually consider an anthropologist as a super- historian, but an anthropologist is a superhistorian, because he thinks in terms of millennia, not just years or centuries. And it was an anthropologist, the well-known Dr. Carleton S. Coon, in his book “The Story of Man,” who proposed a most fascinating thesis that bears on this entire meeting this morning. I quote: “Man has been converting energy into social structure at an ever- increasing pace. As he has drawn more and more energy from the Earth's storehouse, he has organized himself into institutions of increasing size and complexity.” Now, let's think about this for a moment. It takes a great deal of energy for the U.S. Senate, to say nothing of the Federal Government, just simply to exist. Look at us here today. Think of all the energy it took to get everyone into this room—the jet fuel it took to fly us all
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