National Aeronautics and Space Administration Appropriations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 247 pages |
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ABBOTT Administration Aeronautical Research Scientist Aeronautics and Space agency Air Force airplane atmosphere basic BOLAND booster budget building capability capsule CENTAUR cislunar space construction contract data acquisition Division__ DRYDEN earth equipment estimate experiments facilities field fire Fiscal year 1959 fuels funds GLENNAN going guidance initiated instrumentation investigations ionosphere Jet Propulsion Laboratory justifications land Langley launching located ment miles military million minitrack missions moon NACA NASA NASA plant National Aeronautics operational hardware orbit OSTERTAG payload personal services personnel pounds problems procurement Project MERCURY Project VANGUARD Prototypes and operational radiation radio referred to follow research and development Research Center Rocketdyne salaries and expenses satellite scientific SIEPERT SILVERSTEIN solid propellant sounding rockets space laboratories space probes Space rendezvous space vehicles stations studies things THOMAS THOR-ABLE thrust tion Total tracking transferred ULMER VANGUARD VEGA WYATT YATES
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Page 10 - States, except that activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems, military operations, or the defense of the United States (including the research and development necessary to make effective provision for the defense of the United States...
Page 56 - The Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 a year.
Page 57 - ... (1) survey all significant aeronautical and space activities, including the policies, plans, programs, and accomplishments of all departments and agencies of the United States engaged in such activities ; "(2) develop a comprehensive program of aeronautical and space activities to be conducted by...
Page 243 - USC 34), by lease or otherwise through the Administrator of General Services, buildings or parts of buildings in the District of Columbia...
Page 141 - FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION...
Page 9 - The development and operation of vehicles capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies, and living organisms through space...
Page 56 - ... without regard to the civil service laws or the Classification Act of 1949...
Page 96 - JPL (which had responsibility for administration of the contract with the California Institute of Technology for the operation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and the Contracts Division of the Western Operations Office (now called the Western Support Office).
Page 95 - ... for a period of four years after the date of enactment of this Act, may transfer to the Administration any functions (including powers, duties, activities, facilities, and parts of functions) of any other department or agency of the United States, or of any officer or organizational entity thereof, which relate primarily to the functions, powers, and duties of the Administration as prescribed by section 203 of this Act.
Page 58 - Act, shall( 1 ) plan, direct, and conduct aeronautical and space activities; (2) arrange for participation by the scientific community in planning scientific measurements and observations to be made through use of aeronautical and space vehicles, and conduct or arrange for the conduct of such measurements and observations; and (3) provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and the results thereof.