Dec 6 1959

From The Space Library

The initial plan for transferring the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and Saturn to NASA was drafted. It was submitted to President Dwight D. Eisenhower on December 11 and was signed by Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker and Secretary of the Air Force James H. Douglas on December 16 and by NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan on December 17.

David S. Akens, Historical Origins of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC Historical Monograph No. 1, 1960), p. 73, Appendix C, approval page.