Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space advisers, Dwight Eisenhower i) finally terminated the space mission of the Army, thus cutting down by one the roster of overlapping U.S. space agencies (TIME, Oct. 19), and 2) transferred the Army's 4,300-man ballistic-missile team led by Rocketeer Wernher von Braun to the civilian National Aeronautics and Space Administration (subject to congressional approval next session...
...interim Saturn program and possibly NASA's longer-range F-1 Rocketdyne single-chamber engine of 1,500,000 Ibs. thrust, and beyond that, the giant Nova with 6,000,000 Ibs. of thrust. The U.S., said Ike at his Augusta press conference, would spend on the civilian space effort next year "something more" than the current $500 million a year...
...organization untangling would ever get the space program going until the President abandoned the obsolescent concept that space can be divided into civilian and military sectors, hence can be organized by civilian and military agencies side by side. This concept developed logically enough when defense planners decreed that space projects should not be allowed to interfere with the military's urgent task of catching up on missile production. But today the U.S. missile program has gathered substantial momentum, while the Russians have demonstrated a firm intention to use space as a primary cold-war weapon...
Readymade Model. The U.S. does not have to put the space program under military command to get going. But the fact stands that civilians now in command of vital elements of the space program, notably NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan and Pentagon Research Director York, do not have experience in the tough kind of getting-things-done that the occasion demands. One way to resolve the space tangle once and for all would be to set up a unified, civilian-military space organization similar to the World War II Manhattan District in which scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer developed...
Said a senior civilian missileman in California last week: "There is really nothing we can do in the short term in the way of getting something up there that will match or surpass the Russkies. We can rejigger things, but that would be a stopgap measure and not a program. The important point-the crucial point-is that decisions must be made now if the future is to bear fruit...