Word: nasa
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Energetic Dr. T. Keith Glennan, chief of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration, made his way into the Pentagon office of Army Secretary Wilber Brucker last fortnight with a message: civilian-run NASA, operating under Congressional authority, intended to take over the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal, 2,100 scientists from its missile team, the Army-backed Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles and various other installations...
Brucker lost no time hustling down to the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles to protest. In Chicago Major General John Medaris, Redstone commander, dramatically got aboard a plane for Washington to fight off NASA capture-while a news leak rallied press reinforcements...
Behind Army's pressagentry lay some hard facts: 1) NASA takeover would break up Spaceman Wernher von Braun's dedicated Redstone team, which produced the dependable Jupiter-C and the first U.S. satellite, scatter experts into private industry; 2) Redstone works 85% on military, nonspace projects, and NASA is not allowed to make military decisions; 3) operating Redstone would cost more than NASA's total $301 million budget in overhead and equipment...
...civilian and military customers. The Defense Department's new Advanced Research Projects Agency would continue to handle space projects "peculiar to or primarily associated with military weapons systems or military operations." Just as AEC is watched over by a general advisory committee of top scientists, so the new NASA would be guided-but not run by-a new presidential advisory committee on space...