Dec 9 1957

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Secretary McElroy ordered acceleration of the Polaris program.

The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee on Space Technology recommended acceleration of specific military projects and a vigorous space program with the immediate goal of landings on the moon because "Sputnik and the Russian ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) capability have created a national emergency."

Thomas A. Sturm, The USAF Scientific Advisory Board: Its First Twenty Years, 1944-1964 (1967), pp. 82-83.