IN THE BEGINNING, THE SELECT COMMITTEE 



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Of interest also is an unofficial "Legislative History of the Space 

 Law," totaling 1,346 pages of text and copies of numerous drafts of the 

 1958 Space Act, prepared by Raymond Wilcove of the staff of the 

 House Select Committee but never formally approved for release. 

 A copy of Mr. Wilcove's study is deposited in the Library of Congress. 



A very significant study compiled by the House select committee, 

 entitled "The Next Ten Years in Space 1959-1969" was not officially 

 approved for release until early 1959 and therefore will be discussed in 

 the next chapter on the beginnings of the House Committee on Science 

 and Astronautics. 



The House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Explora- 

 tion came to an end on January 3, 1959. The select committee provided 

 a smooth launching pad for the House Committee on Science and 

 Astronautics and its successor, the present House Committee on 

 Science and Technology. 



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Membership and staff of select committee: Front row, from left, Representatives William 

 H. Natcher (Democrat of Kentucky), Lee Metcalf (Democrat of Montana), Overton Brooks 

 (Democrat of Louisiana), John W. McCormack (Democrat of Massachusetts), Joseph \V. 

 Martin, Jr. (Republican of Massachusetts), Gordon L. McDonough (Republican of Cali- 

 fornia), and James G. Fulton (Republican of Pennsylvania). Second row, from left, Mary 

 Myron, Richard P. Hines, William Coblenz (on loan from LRS), Raymond Wilcove, Dr. 

 Charles S. Sheldon II, George J. Feldman, Spencer M. Beresford, Philip B. Yeager, Joseph 

 Moran, and Jean Cameron. Other members of the select committee not included in the photo- 

 graph were Representatives Hays, O'Brien, Sisk, Arends, Keating, and Ford. 



