CARD DIVISION H. S. Congress. Seriate. HEARINGS BEFORE THE 4 MAY SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICS. UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3609 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR RESEARCH INTO PROBLEMS ATMOSPHERE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES MAY 6, 7, AND 8, 1958 PART 1 Printed for the use of the Special Committee on Space and Astronautics SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICS THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, Rhode Island ALEXANDER WILEY, Wisconsin WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington CLINTON P. ANDERSON, New Mexico EDWIN L. WEISL, Consulting Counsel CYRUS VANCE, Consulting Counsel Dr. HOMER JOE STEWART, Scientific Consultant II Dr. James H. Doolittle, Chairman, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; accompanied by Paul G. Dembling, NACA_legal adviser, and Abe_Silverstein, Associate Director, NACA, Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio.. Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission; accompanied by Larry Olsen, General Counsel, AEC; Gen. Donald J. Keirn, in charge of the Air Reactors Branch of the AEC; and Bryan Laplante, Office of Congressional Liaison of the AEC... Donald A. Quarles, Deputy Secretary of Defense; accompanied by Admiral John E. Clark, Assistant Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency; Gen. Robert H. Warren, military assistant to Mr. Quarles; Jack Stempler, Assistant General Counsel, Department of Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Director, National Science Foundation; accompanied by William Hoff, General Counsel, National Science Roy W. Johnson, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Page Malcolm A. MacIntyre, Undersecretary of the Air Force; accom- panied by John A. Johnson, General Counsel, Department of the Wilber M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army; accompanied by John H. Michaelis, Office of Legislative Liaison; John Daley; and William H. 85618 NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ACT OF 1958 TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1958 UNITED STATES SENATE, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICS, Washington, D. C. The special committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a. m., in room 457, Senate Office Building, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Lyndon B. Johnson (chairman), Green, McClellan, Anderson, Symington, Bridges, Wiley, Hickenlooper, Saltonstall and Bricker. Also present: Edwin L. Weisl, consulting counsel; Eilene Galloway, special consultant; Dr. Glen P. Wilson, technical coordinator; Gerald W. Siegel, Stuart French, and Solis Horwitz, professional staff members. Senator JOHNSON. Will the committee please come to order. I am informed that we do not have microphones for the audience and therefore it is necessary that those of us at the table speak louder than usual if we expect those in the hearing room to follow us. First of all, two of our most outstanding members are in a leadership conference at the White House this morning and will be delayed. In view of the fact that General Doolittle's time is limited and he expects to leave for Europe after he completes his testimony here, we thought we should go ahead as scheduled. I should like to ask the members of the staff who have worked on this hearing to please stand as I present them so that all of the members of the committee may know them. Mr. Edwin Weisl, please stand. Mr. Solis Horwitz and Mr. Gerald Siegel; Dr. Glen Wilson and Mrs. Eilene Galloway. (Those named arose momentarily.) We have a number of other staff members who have worked with us but who are not here this morning, and we are very grateful for the outstanding service they have performed. We are here today to begin consideration of a bill which will create a Federal agency with the specific responsibility of guiding the Nation in the exploration of outer space. It will be printed in the record at this point. [S. 3609, 85th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958." DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and security of the United States require that adequate provision be made for research into, and 1 |