NASA Administrators, ca. 1983.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Glennan, Thomas Keith, 1905-1995

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Glennan served as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1958-1961. From the description of Diary and memoir, 1958-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81001322 Glennan was NASA Administrator. Brucker was Secretary of the Army. From the description of Cooperative Agreement on the Army Ordnance Missile Command between NASA and the Department of the Army, 1958 Dec 3. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: ...

Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

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James Chipman Fletcher, born 5 June 1919, in Millburn, New Jersey, attended high school in New York City and received a B.A. in physics from Columbia University in 1940. He served as a research physicist with the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance, and in 1941 became a special research associate at the Cruf Laboratory of Harvard University. He went to Princeton University in 1942 as a teaching fellow and later was an instructor and research physicist. Under an Eastman Kodak fe...

Paine, Thomas O., 1921-1992

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Engineer, corporate executive, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration official. Full name: Thomas Otten Paine; died 1992. From the description of Thomas O. Paine papers, 1931-1992 (bulk 1960-1982). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83457377 Epithet: couper, of Woodstock, county Oxfordshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x000200 Thomas Otten Paine (November 9, 1921 - May 4, ...

Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-

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Government official and businessman. From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to Mattie U. Russell, 1976 Sept. 22. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 26997249 James Edwin Webb (1906-1992), lawyer and government official, was the Director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1946 to 1949, Under Secretary of State from 1949 to 1952, and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1961 to 1968. From the description of We...

Selby, Barbara Smith, 1955-

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Frosch, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1928-

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Robert A. Frosch is a Senior Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He received his Ph. D. in 1952 from Columbia University in Theoretical Physics and later conducted research in ocean acoustics at Columbia. He has served as Director for Nuclear Test Detection and Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the Department of Defense, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, Assistant Executive Director of the...

Beggs, James Montgomery, 1926-

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Associate administrator, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968-1969; under secretary of transportation, 1969-1973. From the description of James Montgomery Beggs papers, 1959-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871811 Beggs was administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1981-1986. From the description of James Montgomery Beggs papers, 1981-1986. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCa...