Apr 1 1959

From The Space Library

John W. Crowley, Jr., NASA Director of Aeronautical and Space Research, notified the Ames, Lewis, and Langley Research Centers, the High Speed Flight Station (later Flight Research Center), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Office of Space Flight Development that a Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight would be formed. Harry J. Goett of Ames was to be Chairman of the Committee, which would assist NASA Headquarters in carrying out its responsibilities in long-range planning and basic research on manned space flight.

Memoranda, NASA Headquarters to Ames, Lewis, and Langley Research Centers and High Speed Flight Station, "Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight," April 1, 1959; Director of Aeronautical and Space Research to Director of Space Flight Development, "Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight," April 2, 1959; NASA Headquarters to Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight," April 8, 1959.