(Project Mercury-Man-in-Space Program)

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

THE UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN

SEP 17 1959

MAIN
READING ROOM

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

44151

EXECUTIVE SESSION

MAY 28, 1959

[No. 37]

Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics

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

Carpenter, Malcom S., astronaut.

Cooper, Leroy G., Jr., astronaut.-

Gleason, James, Assistant Administrator for Congressional Relations,

National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

Glenn, John H., Jr., astronaut

Grissom, Virgil I., astronaut.

Low, George M., Chief, Manned Space Flight, National Aeronautics and

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