Nov 5 1958
From The Space Library
The Space Task Group (STG) was officially organized at Langley Field, Va., to implement the manned satellite project (later Project Mercury), NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan had approved the formation of the Group, which had been working together for some months, on October 7. Its members were designated on November 3 by Robert R. Gilruth, Project Manager, and authorization was given by Floyd L. Thompson, Acting Director of Langley Research Center. STG would report directly to NASA Headquarters.
Memorandum, Gilruth, Project Manager, to Associate Director, "Space Task Group," November 3, 1958; Swenson et al., This New Ocean, p. 114.
