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Wexler, Dr. Harry, Director, Office of Meteorological Research, United
States Weather Bureau__.

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ACT OF 1958

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1958

UNITED STATES SENATE,

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICS,

Washington, D. C. The special committee reconvened, pursuant to recess, at 10:05 a. m., in the caucus room, Senate Office Building, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (chairman) presiding.

Present: Senators Johnson (chairman), Green, McClellan, Saltonstall, Mundt, Anderson, Symington, and Bricker.

Also present: Edwin L. Weisl, consulting counsel; Cyrus Vance, consulting counsel; Eilene Galloway, special consultant; Dr. Glen P. Wilson, technical coordinator; Gerald W. Siegel, Stuart French, and Solis Horwitz, professional staffmembers.

Senator JOHNSON. The committee will come to order.

Our first witness this morning is Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Director, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

Dr. Dryden, the committee has considerable interest in your testimony, and we extend you a hearty welcome this morning.

As a background to what you are about to say, I am going to ask consent to insert at this point in the record a biography, setting forth your history and qualifications.

(The biography referred to is as follows:)

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. HUGH L. DRYDEN, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS

Dr. Dryden was born on July 2, 1898, at Pocomoke City, Md.

He attended Johns Hopkins University where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1916, master of arts in 1918, and his doctor of philosophy in 1919. He also has received several honorary degrees.

He was employed by the National Bureau of Standards from 1918 to 1946. He was the Director of Aeronautical Research in the NACA from 1947 to 1950, and has been Director of the NACA since 1950.

He has been editor of the Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences; honorary fellow, Institute of Aeronautical Sciences (president in 1943); Wright Brothers lecturer, Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, 1938; honorary officer, Order of the British Empire; home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences; president, 1952-56, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; fellow, American Physical Society.

He has published with H. Bateman and F. D. Murnaghan-Hydrodynamics, 1932; Aerodynamic Theory, volume VI, division T, 1936; Fluid Mechanics and Statistical Methods in Engineering-with others, 1941.

Senator JOHNSON. I understand that you have a prepared statement, Dr. Dryden, and the committee will appreciate it if you will proceed in your own way.

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ACT OF 1958

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1958

UNITED STATES SENATE,

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICS,

Washington, D. C. The special committee reconvened, pursuant to recess, at 10:05 a. m., in the caucus room, Senate Office Building, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (chairman) presiding.

Present: Senators Johnson (chairman), Green, McClellan, Saltonstall, Mundt, Anderson, Symington, and Bricker.

Also present: Edwin L. Weisl, consulting counsel; Cyrus Vance, consulting counsel; Eilene Galloway, special consultant; Dr. Glen P. Wilson, technical coordinator; Gerald W. Siegel, Stuart French, and Solis Horwitz, professional staffmembers.

Senator JOHNSON. The committee will come to order.

Our first witness this morning is Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Director, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

Dr. Dryden, the committee has considerable interest in your testimony, and we extend you a hearty welcome this morning.

As a background to what you are about to say, I am going to ask consent to insert at this point in the record a biography, setting forth your history and qualifications.

(The biography referred to is as follows:)

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. HUGH L. DRYDEN, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS

Dr. Dryden was born on July 2, 1898, at Pocomoke City, Md.

He attended Johns Hopkins University where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1916, master of arts in 1918, and his doctor of philosophy in 1919. He also has received several honorary degrees.

He was employed by the National Bureau of Standards from 1918 to 1946. He was the Director of Aeronautical Research in the NACA from 1947 to 1950, and has been Director of the NACA since 1950.

He has been editor of the Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences; honorary fellow, Institute of Aeronautical Sciences (president in 1943); Wright Brothers lecturer, Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, 1938; honorary officer, Order of the British Empire; home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences; president, 1952-56, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; fellow, American Physical Society.

He has published-with H. Bateman and F. D. Murnaghan-Hydrodynamics, 1932; Aerodynamic Theory, volume VI, division T, 1936; Fluid Mechanics and Statistical Methods in Engineering-with others, 1941.

Senator JOHNSON. I understand that you have a prepared statement, Dr. Dryden, and the committee will appreciate it if you will proceed in your own way.

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