Aug 15 1958

From The Space Library

Saturn Project initiated by ARPA order to Army Ordnance Missile Command, and it was assigned to Redstone Arsenal.

Dr. T. Keith Glennan confirmed by the Senate as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Federal Aviation Agency created with passage by Congress of the Federal Aviation Act.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA provided the Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) with authority and initial funding to develop the Juno V (later named Saturn launch vehicle. ARPA Order 14 described the project: "Initiate a development program to provide a large space vehicle booster of approximately 1.5 million pounds of thrust based on a cluster of available rocket engines. The immediate goal of this program is to demonstrate a full-scale captive dynamic firing by the end of calendar year 1959." Within AOMC, the Juno V project was assigned to the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal Huntsville, Ala.

Koelle et al., Juno Space Vehicle Demonstration; (Phase I), p. 2.