Sep 21 1961
From The Space Library
D. Brainerd Holmes was appointed NASA's Director of Manned Space Flight Programs. As general manager of RCA's Major Defense Systems Division, Holmes was project manager for the ballistic missile early warning system (BMEWS).
Representative George P. Miller, Democrat, of California, was named chairman of the House Science and Astronautics Committee.
Soviet Union protested to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences that Project West Ford might endanger Soviet cosmonauts, protest contained in a letter to Detlev W. Bronk, president of the NAS, signed by Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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