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...daunting question. Why can we not find such a national project in today's contentious world that would give us a common purpose? What about a fleet of hypersonic transport planes that would move Moscow and Tokyo as close as Chicago? "Too many hands stirring the pot," says Keith Glennan, the first director of NASA. He remembers the daring and boldness of the leaders back then and fears that those qualities can no longer be found in a political system that seems to honor timidity. Why not health care or welfare reform or the elimination of deficit spending...
...Keith Glennan, president. Case Institute of Technology, former administrator. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Sc.D...
...feat was at least as nonchalant as the reaction to the first Sputnik. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians, but at his press conference he indicated that the desalinization of ocean water was even more important than space exploration. In 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan insisted that the U.S. was really not too far behind in the space race; in 1961 NASA Chief James Webb insisted that U.S. projects were "solidly based" and proceeding "step by step." In 1957 the Eisenhower Administration was embarrassed by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams' scoff that Sputnik I was little more...
...sighted by observers in England. Australia and Japan. After it has been bombarded by meteorites and misshapen by the cold of sunless space, it is anybody's guess how long Echo I will remain on course. But this did not diminish the jubilation of scientists. Said T. Keith Glennan of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: "It has been a long, hard road, but it is awfully nice to come to the end of it with success...
Case Institute of Technology T. Keith Glennan, president-on-leave of Case, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency Eng.D. Citation: "Dedicated educator of youth, brilliant leader of men of science, whose monuments orbit the earth...