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the-test facility will trigger one of the largest industrial developments in the South.
It is hard to estimate the ultimate cffect all this will have on the Gulf Coast area. There is fepund to be a great deal of industrial development as a result of it, particularly in view of the fact that the Harrison County people have been sc far-sighted in instituting the development of one of the most imaginative industrial park-watcrway projects in the world.
The Navy estimated that 30, 000 contractors and sub-contractors were involved in creating the polaris submarine. Project Apollo is a larger and far more complicated operation than Polaris. Thus it stands to reason, and has been borne out by the inquiries that have already been made to the Harrison County people from industries associated with space work and interested in obtaining land in the industrial park area, that the growth of the Gulf Coast area will be tremendous curing the coming decade.
To tie the whole program together and perhaps give a better indication of
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how important the cffects will be to Mississippi and to the Gulf Coast area, it might be well to summarize the plan of the space program in its presently conceived entirety with particular emphasis upon its cffcct to the Southeast.
The moon flight is to be launched from Cape Canaveral. The Saturn and the Advanced Saturn have been and are to be developed at Huntsville. The first stage of the test Advanced Saturn is under contract to be built at Tvlichoud. The testing of the first and second stages of the Advanced Saturn and of the first
stage cf the Nova is to be done in Mississippi. The Manned Space Center in Houston is in charge of the Apollo Space Craft, its designs, development, ground testing and crew training, although fabrication is elsewhere.
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