SPACE SCIENCES HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION FEBRUARY 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 17, 18, 24, MARCH 2, AND 12, 1959 40691 [No. 11] Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1959 DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS 2 8886 6r Anderson, Lt. Gen. Samuel E., commander, Air Research and Develop- Barclay, Brig. Gen. John A., commander U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Beach, Maj. Gen. Dwight E., Director, Air Defense and Special Boushey, Brig. Gen. Homer A., Director of Advanced Technology, Office of Deputy Chief of Staff, Development, U.S. Air Force___ Brucker, Hon. Wilber M., Secretary of the Army. Dick, Maj. Gen. W. W., Jr., Director, Special Weapons, Office of Donovan, Allen F., vice president and director, astrovehicles, Space Technology Laboratories, Inc., Los Angeles__ Dryden, Dr. Hugh L., Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics 239 195 483 235 Dulles, Hon. Allen W., Director, Central Intelligence Agency Gise, Lawrence P., Assistant Director (Administration), Advanced Holaday, William M., Director of Guided Missiles, Office of Secretary of Defense, and Chairman, Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, National Aeronautics and Space Administration__. Hynek, Dr. J. Allen, Associate Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.. Johnson, Roy W., Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army. Masterson, Rear Adm. K. S., Director, Guided Missile Division, Peters, Comdr. Irvin G., program manager, navigation satellite, Raborn, Rear Adm. W. F., Director, Special Projects Office, Depart- Roadman, Col. Charles H., Chief of Human Factors Division, Di- rectorate of Research and Development, Headquarters, U.S. Air Schriever, Maj. Gen. Bernard A., commander, Ballistic Missile Divi- Siepert, Albert F., Director of Business Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration_. Silverstein, Dr. Abe, Director, Space and Flight Development, National 304 186 99, 129 Statement of-Continued Stewart, Dr. Homer Joe, Director of Planning and Evaluation, Twining, Gen. Nathan F., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense von Braun, Wernher, Director, Development Operations Division, Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Huntsville, Ala__. Wagner, Capt. E. O., Coordinator of Missile Ranges, Office of Deputy White, Gen. Thomas D., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force___ Page 11. 266 427 217 273 73 64 309, 390 MISSILE DEVELOPMENT AND SPACE SCIENCES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS, Washington, D.C., Monday, February 2, 1959. The committee met in the caucus room, Old House Office Building, at 10 a.m., Hon. Overton Brooks (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The Committee on Science and Astronautics will please come to order. Now, gentlemen of the committee, this morning we have just a little bit of official committee business. So I am going to suggest to the committee we go into executive session for about 5 minutes. I think 5 minutes will dispose of what we have, and during that time I regret to say that we will have to exclude everybody from the meeting. And then we will reopen in 5 minutes with the regular list of witnesses that we have this morning, beginning with Dr. Glennan. I hope you will bear with us in that respect. Will the committee please come to order? If there is no objection, we will clear the room and go into executive session. (Whereupon the committee proceeded in executive session, thereafter reconvening in further public proceedings, as follows:) The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please come to order. Gentlemen of the committee, this is the first public activity of the newly constituted Committee on Science and Astronautics. It is interesting to note that the action creating this committee in the House of Representatives, and a parallel action creating a Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences in the Senate, represents the first such addition to standing committees of the Congress since 1892, two-thirds of a century ago. The House of Representatives has recognized that changing times have brought new and grave responsibilities to the Congress, including concern with the larger role for science and the new dimension to human affairs in outer space. Speaking as chairman, all of us appreciate the importance of assignment to membership on this committee, and we will do our best to discharge our duties in service to the Congress and to the American people. This committee has already held organizational meetings in executive session. This morning we are opening our first hearings. They represent but the first step in an orderly and comprehensive plan of study and investigation during the coming year. |