12 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



Members of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration prepare to 

 hear testimony by Dr. Hugh L. Dryden on April 16, 1958. Model of the Echo communica- 

 tions satellite is in background. 



Seated at table, left to right: George J. Eeldman, chief counsel and director of the select 

 committee; Dr. Dryden (later Deputy Administrator of NASA); Representative John \V. 

 McCormack (Democrat of Massachusetts), chairman of the select committee. 



Standing, from left: Representatives William H. Natcher (Democrat of Kentucky), 

 James G. Fulton (Republican of Pennsylvania), Lee Metcalf (Democrat of Montana), li. F. 

 Sisk (Democrat of California), Gordon L. McDonough (Republican of California), Leo \V. 

 O'Brien (Democrat of New York), Representative Kenneth R. Keating (Republican of 

 New York), and Gerald R. Fcrd, Jr. (Republican of Michigan). Those select committee- 

 members not included in the photo were Representatives Overton Rrooks (Democrat ol 

 Louisiana), Rrooks Hays (Democrat of Arkansas), Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (Republican of 

 Massachusetts), and Leslie ( Arcnds (Republican of Illinois). 



