CONTENTS Page 248 269 279 307 315 344 355 Statement of— Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Director, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; accompanied by Paul G. Dembling, General Counsel, NACA.. Institute of Technology, and Chairman, NACA Special Committee William H. Finan, Assistant Director, Management and Organ- Counsel, Department of Commerce. accompanied by Warren B. Irons, Executive Secretary, United States Civil Service Commission.. Institute of Tehnology and professor of physics, University of Iowa - president, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and Chair man, National Science Board. Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration.- States Weather Bureau.--. University, appearing in behalf of the American Association for the United Nations.-- Bureau. by Eilene Galloway, special consultant, Senate Committee on Space and Astronautics. An International Outer Space Agency for Peaceful Purposes, by Mary Shepard, analyst, International Organization Foreign Affairs Divi sion, Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress .The Soviet Space Effort, special report prepared by Air Information Division of the Library of Congress.- 360 362 369 374 379 380 381 387 393 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL WITNESSES 315 360 248 307 Becker, Loftus E., Legal Adviser, Department of State -- nautics tute of Technology - tute of Technology - University - States Weather Bureau.. 344 362 279 269 355 374 369 NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ACT OF 1958 TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1958 UNITED STATES SENATE, 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 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, 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. HUGĦ L. DRYDEN, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS 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. |