Sep 1 1969
From The Space Library
L/G Samuel C. Phillips, NASA Apollo Program Director, became Commander of Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO). Gen. Phillips had been Director of Minuteman program before assignment to NASA in January 1964 as Deputy Director of Apollo Program. He was succeeded by Rocco A. Petrone [see Aug. 22]. (NASA Ann, 7/31/69)
S. Paul Johnston retired as Director of Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. He would represent AIAA on NRC. (A&A, 9/69, 15)
Scientific Research article commented on attitude toward science of President Nixon and Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, Presidential Science Adviser: "If there's a Nixon-DuBridge science policy it is this: to revitalize federal support of basic research . . . and to point government-financed applied research toward the solution of the country's many social ills." (Scientific Research, 9/1/69, 11-12)
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