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...FRANCES WEBB Montgomery...
NASA's abundant cash, distributed by its politically savvy chief, James E. Webb, may keep the moon project in funds in spite of its threatened loss of appeal as a U.S. v. Russia horse race. But when space officials put aside their worries about getting money out of Congress, they admit that the moon project has slipped a little, and may slip more. Along with all its scientific and engineering troubles, it has a vital problem of personnel. One man, one savvy administrative expert such as the Navy's Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, who sent...
...plaque at the Rugby School in England still commemorates William Webb Ellis, who in 1823 first picked up the ball and ran with it, thus becoming the father of modern rugby...
...Shorty") Powers, 40, voice of the astronauts, was no longer A-OK with his NASA bosses. For months Shorty bantily crowed at the notion. Two weeks ago, the crow got lower. "I am sure my role is going to change," he admitted after a meeting with NASA Administrator James Webb. Last week it was official; Shorty was the cargo on a one-man, one-way man shoot out of Canaveral. Next on the pad: Paul Haney, 35, a NASA publicity man since shortly after the agency's founding...
Last week Webb announced that Holmes's job will be taken over by Dr. George E. Mueller, 45, vice president for research and development of Los Angeles' Space Technology Laboratories, one of the U.S.'s biggest space-age contractors. Holmes's successor, says a NASA official, is "very quiet, very polite and no table thumper like Holmes." Both an electrical engineer and a physicist by training, Mueller (pronounced Miller) has done notable and imaginative work in electromagnetic theory, missile guidance systems, deep space communications, microwave research, space-systems engineering and space payload design. He helped develop...