Word: glennan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...programs into "military" and "civilian," the nation's space effort is split up between two separate bureaucratic domains, both ineffectual: the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, headed by Roy Johnson, sometime General Electric executive, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, headed by T. Keith Glennan, engineer, ex-Hollywood studio manager and president-on-leave of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology. Neither ARPA nor NASA has enough authority or resources to set long-range goals and march toward them. Splinters of space programs are further scattered among the Army, Navy and Air Force...
Torture & Triumph. The seven Astronauts of Project Mercury were winnowed out by the most searching tests man could devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
...reason for this shining success after so many failures is buried in Washington's jungle of bureaucracy. The firing was postponed from December to February on orders of Dr. Keith Glennan, head of the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which took the program over from the Navy. Every detail of the launching vehicle was examined critically, but whether major changes were made is not clear. There were few changes of personnel. Long-suffering Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard program from its beginning, remained in charge. When he reported to the House space committee...
...cost of this program, said NASA Director Glennan, will be $485.3 million, and he warned Congress that future bills would be higher. "The cost of our space programs," he said, "will increase year by year. We expect that satellites will be widely used in meteorology-witness the Vanguard II cloud cover experiment-and in worldwide communications. The value of such advances will be counted in the billions of dollars...
...Glennan dubbed the 110 men Mercury Astronauts, said that beginning this month they will go to Washington in groups of about 30 for full briefings on Project Mercury. After that, the candidates will be asked if they want to volunteer. From the volunteers, 36 will be chosen to be tested on their ability to cope with the strange stresses of space flight...