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UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1959

Opening session, January 29, 1959.

Opening statement, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, chairman_

Testimony of—

Hon. Neil H. McElroy, Secretary of Defense; accompanied by

Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff____

Afternoon session:

Adm. Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, Gen. Thomas

D. White, Chief of Staff, Air Force, and Gen. Randolph McC.

Pate, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps..

Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, commander, Air Force Ballistic

Missile Division_.

Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army.

Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, resumed.

Gen. Thomas S. Power, commander in chief, SAC.

Opening session, January 30, 1959–

Testimony of-

Dr. T. Keith Glennan, Administrator, NASA; accompanied by

Dr. W. H. Pickering, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

NASA, and Dr. Homer J. Stewart, Director, Planning and

Evaluations, NASA___

Afternoon session:

Index__

Dr. Herbert York, Director of Defense Research and Engineering,

William M. Holaday, Director of Guided Missiles and Chairman,

Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, and Roy Johnson, Direc-

tor, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of

Defense____

Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Development Operations

Divisions of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency..

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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Burke, Adm. Arleigh, Chief of Naval Operations.

Glennan, Dr. T. Keith, Administrator, NASA..

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Holaday, William M., Director of Guided Missiles and Chairman, Civilian-

Military Liaison Committee.

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Johnson, Roy, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department

of Defense..

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McElroy, Hon. Neil H., Secretary of Defense.

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Pate, Gen. Randolph McC., Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps..

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Pickering, Dr. W. H., Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ÑASA.

Power, Gen. Thomas S., commander in chief, SAC..

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Schriever, Maj. Gen. Bernard A., commander, Air Force Ballistic Missile

Division..

Stewart, Dr. Homer J., Director, Planning and Evaluations, NASA.

Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army...

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Twining, Gen. Nathan F., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff..

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Von Braun, Dr. Wernher, Director of the Development Operations Divi-

sions of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency...

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White, Gen. Thomas D., Chief of Staff, Air Force...

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York, Dr. Herbert, Director of Defense Research and Engineering---.

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