Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Lindsay, head of NASA's solar physics program, reported the space agency has a duplicate moon satellite but no rocket...
Thus the President put under one roof the responsibility for the space-engine program, which lags two to five years behind the Soviet Union's. Von Braun & Co. will have responsibility for developing the 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...
...Research Projects Agency (who is resigning soon) got it going again. Then Dr. Herbert York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, opposed it because, so said York, it had no clear military requirement. Johnson saved it again. Last week, in limbo between the Army and NASA, Saturn was limping along at Huntsville on a 40-hour week while a NASA spokesman dubbed as "premature" any speculation that Saturn might be speeded...
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...
...Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by the President himself. But NASC meets seldom, spends much of its time deciding which organization-chart rectangles various projects belong to. The Mercury man-in-space program, for example, has migrated during the past two years from the Air Force to ARPA to NASA, inevitably losing momentum with each shift...