HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

MAY 8, 9, 10, AND JULY 13, 1961

[No. 19]

PART 1

Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1961

LAITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

Statement of

Busignies, Henri, vice president and general technical, International

Telephone & Telegraph Corp...

Brophy, Theodore F., vice president and general counsel, General
Telephone & Electronics; accompanied by Dr. Herbert Trotter,
president, General Telephone & Electronics Laboratories..
Craven, Hon. T. A. M., Commissioner, Federal Communications Com-
mission; accompanied by Bernard Strassburg, Assistant Chief of
the Common Carrier Bureau, and Max D. Paglin, General Counsel.
Dingman, James, vice president and chief engineer, American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co.; accompanied by John F. Preston, Jr., coun-
sel..

Engstrom, Dr. Elmer W., senior executive vice president, Radio Corp.
of America___

Haley, Andrew, general counsel, American Rocket Society

Paige, Hilliard W., general manager, Missile and Space Vehicle De-

partment, General Electric Co..

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113

72

497

306

3

437

141

Root, L. Eugene, group vice president, missiles and electronics, Lock-

heed Aircraft Corp.; accompanied by Beardsley Graham, special

assistant on communications satellites..

408

Webb, Hon. James E., Administrator, National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

464

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