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HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE OX SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



While chairman of the Manned Space Flight Subcommittee, Representative Olin E. Teague 

 (Democrat of Texas), right, took his subcommittee on frequent trips to oversee the work at 

 NASA installations and their contractors. Along with Representative Edward J. Patten (Demo- 

 crat of New Jersey), left, Teague is conferring with James S. McDonnell, head of McDonnell 

 Aircraft Corp. in St. Louis, Mo., producers cf the Mercury and Gemini space capsules. 



Dr. Vi ernher von Braun and Representative James G. Fulton (Republican of Pennsyl- 

 vania), right, inspecting a Saturn engine used in the Apollo program. 



