70 HISTORY OF THE com Mil Til ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



Dr. \\ ernher von Etraun, Director of the Marshall Spate Flight Center at Huntsville, 

 Ala , greets members of the Science Committee during one of their many field trips to that 

 installation. From left. Representatives Richard L. Roudehush (Republican of Indiana), 

 K. Walter Riehlman (Republican of New York), James G. Fulton (Republican of Pennsyl- 

 vania), Col. Earl G. Peacock, committee staff; Col. Harold F. Dyer, committee staff; Repre- 

 sentative Olin E. Teague (Democrat of Texas), R. K. Dannenberg of MSFC, Dr. von Braun, 

 Harry H. Gorman of MSI( , Representatives Ken Hechler (Democrat of West Virginia), 

 Joe Waggonner (Democrat of Louisiana), John W. Davis (Democrat of Georgia), and Erich 

 Neubert, MSI ( . 



Representatives J. Edgar Chenoweth (Republican of Colorado), B. F. Sisk (Democrat of 

 California), Joseph \\ . Martin, Jr. (Republican of Massachusetts) and Joseph E. Karth (Demo- 

 crat of Minnesota), far right, with Dr. James A. Van Allen (second from right), after whom 

 the "Van Allen Radiation Belts" were named. 



