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TABLE 2. CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE IGY « 



Appropriated Obligations Unobligated < 



Fiscal year— 



1955 .._.-.-..„ $2,000,000 $1,836,542 $163,458 



1956 37,000,000 14,904,593 22,172,936 



1957 15,036,898 17,337,064 



1958 2,000,000 19,337,064 



1959 2,500,000 5,932,004 1,707,589 



1960 1,597,585 110,004 



1961 20, 429 36, 629 



1962 88 39,717 



> Financial reports of the National Science Foundation. 



TABLE 3. CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE IGY BY INDIVIDUAL SCIENTIFIC AREA" 

 Program Amount 



Aurora and airglow _- $1, 718, 022 



Cosmic rays 1, 164, 812 



Geomagnetism _■ 1,580,894 



Glaciology 1,137,905 



Gravity .-. 505,289 



Ionospheric physics 3,237,816 



Longitudes and latitudes r. 24,100 



Meteorology 2,226,800 



Oceanography 2,007,054 



Rocketry 2,598,952 



Seismology 877,049 



Solar activity 307,378 



World days. ■„ 229,050 



Interdisciplinary research _■ 1,750,526 



Earth satellites _• 19, 843, 210 



World data center 1, 513, 587 



General scientific support 1,076, 551 



Technical direction 1, 377, 266 



Total ._- 43,176,261 



Almost half of this money was spent in support of the IGY earth 

 satellite program, as shown in table 3. However, as pointed out by 

 Hugh Odishaw, Executive Director of the U.S. National Committee, 

 these apprpriated funds represented only about one-third of the 

 total U.S. research effort: another third resulted from contributions 

 from private institutions (particularly universities) , with the remaining 

 third being provided through already existing programs in both public 

 and private laboratories. 44 Other Government agencies providing sup- 

 port for the USNC included the Department of Defense, the State 

 Department, the Commerce Department, the Atomic Energy Com- 

 mission, and the Office of Defense Mobilization. 45 The Navy, for 

 example, initially estimated its support for the Antarctic IGY pro- 



° U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Subcommittee on 8cience, Research 

 and Development, The National Science Foundation; A General Review of Itt Firtt IB Yeart, 89th Cong. 

 2d sess., H. Kept. No. 1219, Jan. 24, 1966, p. 77. 



« Report on the U.S. Program for the International Geophysical Year (Washington: National Academy of 

 Sciences-National Research Council, November 1966), p. 897. 



" Hugh Odishaw, "The Meaning of the International Geophysical Year." In: NSF-NAS Hearings; 

 JOY Report, p. 20. 



« House, Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 19S5, pp. 901, 923. 



