AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

FACILITIES, TRAINING, AND RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAMS
OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

CONTENTS

Opening session, November 21, 1963:

Opening statement, Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman__

Statement of Senator Margaret Chase Smith----

Testimony of—

Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, Director, Office of Science and Tech-

nology; accompanied by Dr. Edward Wenk, Jr., Executive

Secretary, Federal Council for Science and Technology, and

William Hooper, technical assistant, Office of Science and Tech-

nology.

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James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space

Administration___.

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James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space

Administration-resumed_

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Dr. Homer E. Newell, Associate Administrator for Space Science

and Applications, NASA_‒‒‒

John A. Johnson, General Counsel, National Aeronautics and

Space Administration___

Dr. Thomas L. K. Smull, Director, Grants and Research Con-

tracts, National Aeronautics and Space Administration___.

Additional questions and answers submitted for the record by the com-

mittee_-

Questions submitted by Senator Margaret Chase Smith_.

Statement by Ambassador Francis T. P. Plimpton---

Statement by Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson_-

Additional answers submitted by NASA__

Index_

ALHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Hooper, William, technical assistant, Office of Science and Technology,

NASA.

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Johnson, John A., General Counsel, NASA_

Newell, Dr. Homer E., Associate Administrator for Space Science and

Applications, NASA.

Smull, Dr. Thomas L. K., Director Grants and Research Contracts NASA_

Webb, James E., Administrator, NASA__

Wenk, Jr., Dr. Edward, Executive Secretary, Federal Council for Science

and Technology---

Wiesner, Dr. Jerome, Director, Office of Science and Technology.

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