NASA EP.National Aeronautics and Space Administration., 1965 |
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Aeronautics and Space agency Air Force aircraft airplane American space Apollo April astronauts booster Cape Canaveral communications satellite created Director Dryden exploration of space facilities flight program future Gemini Glennan Gordon Cooper Hugh Hugh L International James July Langley Research Center launch vehicle left to right liquid-fuel rocket lunar landing mission mankind MARINER Marshall Space Flight ment Mercury-Redstone military million moon MSFC NACA NACA's NASA National Aeronautics nautics observatories October operational orbital flight outer space photographs PIONEER planet President Eisenhower President Kennedy Project Gemini Project Mercury Project Vanguard RANGER rocket research Saturn Scott Carpenter solar system Space Act space activities Space Age Space Council space exploration Space Flight Center space probes space science space technology spacecraft spectacular SPUTNIK Task Group Ten-Year Plan Tiros transferred to NASA U.S. Congress U.S. space effort United Univ unmanned USAF VANGUARD Washington Weather Bureau weather satellites Webb York
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Page 29 - I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
Page 29 - Now it is time to take longer strides, time for a great new American enterprise, time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
Page 6 - The establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of...
Page 7 - ... the most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the United States with other nations engaged in aeronautical and space activities for peaceful purposes ; and to provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning NASA's activities and their results.
Page 7 - The aeronautical and space activities of the United States shall be conducted so as to contribute materially to ...cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this Act and in the peaceful application of the results thereof.
Page 7 - The making available to agencies directly concerned with national defense of discoveries that have military value or significance, and the furnishing by such agencies, to the civilian agency established to direct and control nonmilitary aeronautical and space activities, of information as to discoveries which have value or significance to that agency...
Page 6 - To be strong and bold In space technology will enhance the prestige of the United States among the peoples of the world and create added confidence in our scientific, technological, industrial, and military strength.
Page 9 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 6 - The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in marine science and resource development.
Page 5 - ... the continuation of Federal rent control beyond the expiration date of June 30, 1950, for the information and guidance of those who are responsible and concerned with Federal rent-control legislation; and In view of the fact that the President of the United States the Honorable Harry S. Truman, in his state of the Union message to the Congress on January 5...