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August 3, 1956: This act established a National Library of Medicine 

 in the Public Health Service. (Public Law 941; 70 Stat. 960) 



August 28, 1957: Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1958, appropri- 

 ated $34,200,000 for the U.S. scientific satellite "to be derived by 

 transfer from such annual appropriations available to the De- 

 partment of Defense as may be determined by the Secretary of 

 Defense, to remain available until expended." (Public Law 85- 

 170; 71 Stat. 428) 



September 2, 1957: Up to $45,450,000 was authorized by this act for 

 the construction of aeronautical research facilities and land ac- 

 quisition by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 

 (Public Law 85-253; 71 Stat. 568) 



November 7, 1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the 

 creation of the Office of Special Assistant to the President for 

 Science and Technology, and appointed James R. Killian, Jr., to 

 be his first science advisor. (Radio and television address to the 

 Nation, this date.) 



November 27, 1957: Science Advisory Committee of Office of De- 

 fense Mobilization was transferred to the Executive Office of the 

 President, and enlarge and reconstituted, was redesignated the 

 President's Science Advisory Committee. The action was taken to 

 provide a more direct relationship between the Committee, the 

 President, and the Special Assistant for Science and Technology. 



July 11, 1958. An amendment to the National Science Foundation 

 Act of 1950 authorized and directed the Foundation "to initiate 

 and support a program of study, research, and evaluation in the 

 field of weather modification." (Public Law 85-510; 72 Stat. 353) 



July 21, 1958: House Committee on Science and Astronautics estab- 

 lished by passage of House Resolution 580. 



July 24, 1958: The Senate created a new standing Committee on 

 Aeronautical and Space Sciences. (Senate Resolution 327) 



July 29, 1958: National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 estab- 

 lished the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and a 

 National Aeronautics and Space Council and defined responsibil- 

 ity for space activities. In a statement issued at the signing of the 

 law, President Eisenhower said: "The present National Advisory 

 Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) with its large and competent 

 staff and well-equipped laboratories will provide the nucleus for 

 NASA. The NACA has an established record of research per- 

 formance and of cooperation with the armed services. The coordi- 

 nation of space exploration responsibilities with NACA's tradi- 

 tional aeronautical research functions is a natural evolution 

 * * * [one which] should have an even greater impact on our 

 future." (Public Law 85-568; 72 Stat. 426) 



July 29, 1958: The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 

 which established the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- 

 tration also established a 9-member advisory National Aeronau- 

 tics and Space Council, consisting of the President and other 

 named representatives. 



August 1, 1958: Authorized the Department of the Interior to un- 

 dertake continuing studies of effects of insecticides, herbicides, 

 fungicides and pesticides upon fish and wildlife. (Public Law 85- 

 582; 72 Stat. 479) 



