Papers, 1943-1970 (bulk 1958-1969).

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Papers, 1943-1970 (bulk 1958-1969).

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Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, reports, notes, working diaries, agenda and meeting summaries, academic, employment, and military records, clippings, photos, and other papers, relating chiefly to Golovin's administrative positions at National Bureau of Standards, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and U.S. Office of Science and Technology. Includes material relating to his roles as director of the Large Launch Vehicle Planning Group, a program sponsored by NASA and Dept. of Defense, in the planning, programming, and budgeting system at Office of Science and Technology, as a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, participation in several International Astronautical Congresses, work with White Sands Missile Range, Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Myron Coler's Creative Science Program at New York University, and in various technical writing projects. Includes Golovin's reports and recommendations to presidents Kennedy and Johnson on such topics as the Project Apollo space program, manned space flight, space vehicles and vehicle propulsion systems, and supersonic transport noise problems and his proposal for the creation of a branch of government employing physicists and social scientists to make technological choices in public policy. Correspondents include Edward U. Condon, Anne Golovin, Donald F. Hornig, Charles S. Murphy, and Jerome B. Weisner.

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