Feb 20 1959

From The Space Library

NASA awarded $105 million in contracts for 1959 projects (15 satellites).

The Diefenbaker government in Ottawa announced the termination of the Avro CF-105 "Arrow" interceptor program.

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Deputy Administrator Hugh L. Dryden and DeMarquis D. Wyatt described the long-range objectives of the NASA space program: an orbiting space station with several men, operating for several days; a permanent manned orbiting laboratory; unmanned hard-landing and soft-landing lunar probes; manned circumlunar flight; manned lunar landing and return; and, ultimately, interplanetary flight.

U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, NASA Supplemental Authorization for Fiscal Year 1959, Hearings, 86th Congress, 1st Session (1959), pp. 46, 81.