272 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



1970 was the lowest since 1962 — $33 billion — this issue erupted into 

 heated debate within the committee, the Congress and the Nation. 



COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE 



In six morning hearings totalling 12 hours, the committee rushed 

 through the entire NASA budget between February 17 and 26, 1970. 

 Most of the time was taken up by NASA presentations. When the 

 committee members had an opportunity to question, their queries 

 centered on the Space Shuttle and Space Station, with the major 

 questions being directed toward cost and feasibility. Dale D. Myers, 

 NASA's Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, pointed 

 out that "we can carry to the Space Station people that are not trained 

 as astronauts. We can carry chemists, metallurgists, physicians, 

 astronomers, photographers — and I have added, since yesterday, 

 Congressmen and Congresswomen." This prompted Karth to observe: 



Do you have any candidates in mind? I will send you a list that I have. 



With Chairman Miller's full knowledge, Teague took his Manned 

 Space Flight Subcommittee out on his annual field trip to visit and 

 interrogate contractors, and inspect NASA installations, just before 

 Chairman Miller issued his edict against subcommittee hearings. As a 

 result, early in February Teague's subcommittee visited and quizzed 

 the officials of the Martin Marietta Corp. in Denver; North American 

 Rockwell Corp. in Downey, California; McDonnell Douglas Astro- 

 nautics Co. in Huntington Beach, California; and a joint meeting of 

 the Boeing Company and Lockheed Missile and Space Co., in Sunny- 

 vale, California. 



Subsequent to the full committee hearings, Teague took his sub- 

 committee to the Space Division, Chrysler Corp., at New Orleans, La. ; 

 Grumman Aerospace Corp. at Bethpage, N.Y.; and received reports 

 from the Kennedy, Marshall and Manned Spacecraft Centers. 



SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP OF NASA AUTHORIZATION IN 1970 



The Manned Space Flight Subcommittee was in a runaway mood 

 in 1970. There was a unanimity of feeling, expressed by Chairman 

 Teague, Ranking Republican Member Fulton, and members on both 

 the majority and minority sides, that NASA's request for funds should 

 be sharply increased. Fulton put it this way: 



I believe that this is the year that we should move forward on manned space 

 (light because we have had budgetary restrictions in the past two years. In light of 

 that policy, I would recommend that we move up to the $4.2 billion level for the 



