PROGRESS OF ATLAS AND POLARIS MISSILES

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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS.

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

1969

JULY 28 AND 29, 1959

[No. 34]

Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics

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UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1959

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

OVERTON BROOKS, Louisiana, Chairman

JOHN W. McCORMACK, Massachusetts
GEORGE P. MILLER, California
OLIN E. TEAGUE, Texas
VICTOR L. ANFUSO, New York
B. F. SISK, California
ERWIN MITCHELL, Georgia
JAMES M. QUIGLEY, Pennsylvania
DAVID M. HALL, North Carolina
LEONARD G. WOLF, Iowa
JOSEPH E. KARTH, Minnesota
KEN HECHLER, West Virginia
EMILIO Q. DADDARIO, Connecticut
WALTER H. MOELLER, Ohio
DAVID S. KING, Utah

J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana

JOSEPH W. MARTIN, JR., Massachusetts
JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania
GORDON L. MCDONOUGH, California
J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, Colorado
FRANK C. OSMERS, JR., New Jersey
WILLIAM K. VAN PELT, Wisconsin
A. D. BAUMHART, JR., Ohio
PERKINS BASS, New Hampshire
R. WALTER RIEHLMAN, New York

CHARLES F. DUCANDER, Executive Director and Chief Counsel
Dr. CHARLES S. SHELDON II, Technical Director
SPENCER M. BERESFORD, Special Counsel
PHILIP B. YEAGER, Special Consultant
JOHN A. CARSTARPHEN, Jr., Counsel
RICHARD P. HINES, Staff Consultant

Lt. Col. PAUL B. SCHUPPENER, Staff Consultant
RAYMOND WILCOVE, Staff Consultant

CONTENTS

Statement of:

McRae, Dr. James W., member of the Secretary of Defense's Scientific

Advisory Committee on Ballistic Missiles___

Raborn, Rear Adm. W. F., Director, Special Projects; accompanied

by Vice Admiral Hayward, U.S. Navy.

Schriever, Lt. Gen. Bernard A., Air Research and Development Com-

mand, U.S. Air Force, accompanied by Colonel Cristadoro, program

director, Atlas program, and Colonel Boatman, assistant to Lt. Gen.

Bernard A. Schriever..

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