VI HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



II. The Overton Brooks Years, 1959-61 — Continued p aRe 



NASA authorization in 1959 47 



Annual authorization 49 



Panel on science and technology 50 



The passing of the scepter 60 



III. Racing for the Moon 63 



Keith Glennan 64 



The space race 65 



Executive privilege 66 



Transfer of the von Braun team to NASA 68 



Life sciences 72 



Project Mercury 73 



A new Administrator for NASA 74 



The Air Force challenge to NASA 77 



Manned flight and the Kennedy budget 78 



Effect of Gagarin flight 80 



Reaction of President Kennedy 82 



The committee seizes the initiative 83 



Speeding up the lunar landing timetable 84 



Shepard's suborbital flight 89 



The committee and the lunar landing goal 93 



IV. The Early Miller Years 95 



Contrasts between Brooks and Miller 96 



Relations with NASA 97 



Membership and subcommittee organization .... 98 



Jurisdiction 99 



Staff operation 100 



Delegation to subcommittees 102 



Additional assistance 104 



The committee and the Mercury program 107 



The committee and Nova 108 



Protecting launch operations 112 



Karth and space science 114 



Construction of facilities 117 



Patents and inventions 121 



Other areas of activity 123 



The end of the honeymoon 124 



V. Science, Research and Development, 1963-69 .... 127 



Why the Daddano subcommittee was formed . . . 130 



Formatioa of the Elliott committee 131 



Daddario background 132 



Philip B. Yeager 133 



First hearings of Daddario subcommittee 134 



Research management advisory panel 135 



