Toward The Endless Frontierhistory Of The Committee On Science And Technology, 1959-79

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Date: 1980
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• COVER
• CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • I. IN THE BEGINNING, THE SELECT COMMITTEE
    • Accomplishments of the select committee
    • What led to the creation of the select committee?
    • Meanwhile at the White House
    • The Johnson committee hearings and Vanguard
    • Explorer I
    • Establishment of the select committee
    • Membership of the select committee (1958)
    • The high hopes of Overton Brooks
    • Future President joins select committee
    • Hearings before the select committee
    • Birth of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics
    • Joint Committee or separate House and Senate Committees?
    • Committee on Science and Astronautics officially sanctioned
    • The writing of the Space Act and the establishment of NASA
    • Patent policy
    • The National Aeronautics and Space Council
    • Annual authorizations for NASA
    • Reports of the House select committee
  • II. THE OVERTON BROOKS YEARS, 1959-61
    • Overton Brooks as chairman
    • Committee membership
    • Recruitment of staff
    • Getting the committee organised
    • First meeting of the committee
    • The first public hearing
    • The Next Ten Years in Space, 1959-1969
    • The committee jurisdiction
    • Establishment of subcommittees
    • NASA authorization in 1959
    • Annual authorization
    • Panel on science and technology
    • The passing of the scepter
  • III. RACING FOR THE MOON
    • Keith Glennan
    • The space race
    • Executive privilege
    • Transfer of the von Braun team to NASA
    • Life sciences
    • Project Mercury
    • A new Administrator for NASA
    • The Air Force challenge to NASA
    • Manned flight and the Kennedy budget
    • Effect of Gagarin flight
    • Reaction of President Kennedy
    • The committee seizes the initiative
    • Speeding up the lunar landing timetable
    • Shepard s suborbital flight
    • The committee and the lunar landing goal
  • IV. THE EARLY MILLER YEARS
    • Contrasts between Brooks and Miller
    • Relations with NASA
    • Membership and subcommittee organization
    • Jurisdiction
    • Staff operation
    • Delegation to subcommittees
    • Additional assistance
    • The committee and the Mercury program
    • The committee and Nova
    • Protecting launch operations
    • Karth and space science
    • Construction of facilities
    • Patents and inventions
    • Other areas of activity
    • The end of the honeymoon
  • V. SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 1963-69
    • Why the Daddario subcommittee was formed
    • Formation of the Elliott committee
    • Daddario background
    • Philip B. Yeager
    • First hearings of Daddario subcommittee
    • Research management advisory panel
    • Science Policy Research Division
    • Government and Science seminar
    • National Science Foundation
    • Geographic distribution
    • Basic Research and National Goals
    • The move to the Rayburn Building
    • Three-year review of the National Science Foundation
    • Research in social sciences
    • Vice President Humphrey s visit
    • Standard reference data legislation
    • Fire research and safety
    • Applied science and technological progress
    • Institutional grants for science education
    • Pollution abatement
    • Environmental quality
    • International science
    • International biological program
    • Other international activities
    • Management of Federal scientific activities
    • Technology assessment
    • Assessment of the Daddario subcommittee, 1963-69
  • VI. GEMINI AND APOLLO
    • Briefing Congress on the space program
    • Personnel of Manned Space Flight Subcommittee
    • 1963: The first year of strong opposition
    • Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. expedition to the Moon?
    • Visitor center at the Cape
    • Manned space program comes of age
    • Critical Issues Council
    • Bipartisan support for manned space flight
    • Minority staff
    • Victories in 1965
    • Geographic distribution of research contracts
    • Passage of the NASA authorization bill in 1965
    • Future planning
    • Progress in 1966
    • Fire in the Cockpit
    • The committee investigation
    • The Phillips report
    • Effect of the Teague committee hearings
    • A new Administrator; Dr. Thomas O. Paine
  • VII. SPACE SCIENCE, APPLICATIONS, AND ADVANCED RESEARCH, 1963-69
    • Weather satellites
    • Communications satellites
    • Electronics research center
    • Ranger
    • Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor
    • Mariner, Mars, and Venus
    • Earth resources technology satellites
    • Sustaining university program
    • Applications technology satellites
    • Other projects in space science and applications
    • Solids versus liquids
    • Subcommittee membership
    • Aeronautics
    • Nerva and nuclear power
    • Unidentified flying objects
    • Tracking and data acquisition
    • For the benefit of all mankind
  • VIII. DECISION ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE
    • Should we land on Mars?
    • Space Task Group recommendations
    • Committee reaction to the Space Shuttle
    • Committee hearings on the Space Shuttle
    • Subcommittee markup of NASA authorization in 1970
    • Karth blasts Shuttle
    • Full committee and NASA authorization in 1970
    • The split among committee Republicans
    • The Shuttle fight in the House
    • Karth amendment against Shuttle
    • Fulton s recommit motion
    • Where do we go from here?
    • Committee leadership on future of space
    • Teague accentuates the positive
    • Winning Karth s support for the Shuttle
    • Floor debate on NASA authorization in 1971
    • The committee and the 1972 Shuttle decision
    • Committee reaction to the decision
    • The Presidential campaign of 1972
    • Bella, it is nice to have you with us
    • Committee support in 1972 debate
    • The committee and Shuttle contracts
    • A new chairman for Manned Space Flight Subcommittee
    • Oversight on the Shuttle program
    • The opposition in 1973
    • The main engine problems in 1974
    • The Shuttle and the automobile
    • Austerity hits the Shuttle
    • The Air Force and the Shuttle
    • The fifth Space Shuttle Obiter
    • The Shuttle in perspective
    • Supplemental for Shuttle
    • Additional funds required
  • IX. SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS IN THE 1970 s
    • Apollo applications becomes Skylab
    • Renewed support for Skylab
    • 1973: The year of Skylab
    • Scientific exploration of the Moon
    • The committee and Apollo in 1971-72
    • Apollo 17 and Chairman Miller s retirement
    • Teague succeeds Miller
    • The four chairmen of Space Science and Applica-tions
    • Earth Resources Information System
    • Future space programs
    • Tracking and data acquisition
    • Technology utilization
    • Public affairs program
  • X. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION, 1959-79
    • Peaceful exploration of outer space-1958
    • Chairman Brooks and international cooperation
    • Science committee leadership on international policy
    • Fulton pushes cooperation
    • International agreements and the tracking network
    • Anfuso advocates more cooperation
    • The U-2 fiasco
    • A committee divided
    • International science activities and the NSF
    • Chairman Miller and international cooperation
    • Radio astronomy, communications, and weather satellites
    • International satellites
    • Cooperation with the Soviet Union
    • A new tug-of-war over cooperation
    • The Outer Space Treaty of 1967
    • Competition versus cooperation
    • Influence of the Panel on Science and Technology
    • Improving management of international sciences
    • Applied science and world economy
    • International visits
    • Survey of international sciences
    • Chairman Miller and the Council of Europe
    • Confrontation meeting with the OECD
    • U.N. Conference in Vienna
    • Scientific cooperation with Canada
    • Visit of Canadian Senators
    • The political risks of international issues
    • American flag on the Moon—1969
    • Establishment of the international subcommittee
    • Oversight subcommittee and international affairs—1970
    • Farnborough and Paris Air Shows
    • Background of international subcommittee
    • Status of international cooperation—1971
    • The challenge of youth
    • International Science Foundation
    • Chairman Miller and international science—1971
    • High noon for the environment
    • Meeting of the ministers of science, OECD
    • A new chairman: Jim Symington—1972
    • The Lausanne Conference—1972
    • Cooperative agreements with the Soviet Union—1972
    • Richard T. Hanna—1973-74
    • U.S.-U.S.S.R. advanced technology transfer
    • Technology transfer to underdeveloped nations
    • Brussels conference on satellite transmissions
    • Apollo-Soyuz
    • Keeping the committee members informed
    • Progress of negotiations—1972
    • Opposition to Apollo-Soyuz
    • The Teague-Winn trip to Russia—1972
    • Teague opposition to Apollo-Soyuz
    • Astronaut Stafford moderates Teague s opposition
    • Stabilizing factors
    • Safety and money limitations
    • Teague presses for more experiments
    • More money for experiments
    • Apollo-Soyuz a success—1975
    • DISPA—1975-76
    • Ray Thornton as chairman
    • International implications of early hearings—1975
    • Impact of Thornton subcommittee recommendations
    • Technology transfer to OPEC countries
    • U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperative agreements—1975
    • Council of Europe Conference in 1975
    • DISPAC—1977-78, Chairman Scheuer
    • Jurisdictional problems
    • Law of the Sea Conference
    • Comparative criminal justice
    • Nutrition
    • Appropriate technology
    • Science, Technology, and Diplomacy Act of 1978
    • Transfer of technology to OPEC countries
    • U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperative agreements—1978
    • U.N. Conference on Science and Technology
    • Other DISP AC activities
    • European oversight trip
    • The Wydler reports
    • Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978
    • International space activities
    • Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation
    • United States-China scientific exchanges
    • European oversight trip in 1979
    • Conclusion
  • XI. INCHING TOWARD THE METRIC SYSTEM, 1959-79
    • Endorsement of metric system by panel—1961
    • Committee members take sides
    • H. R. Gross opposes metric—1962
    • Chairman Miller leads the fight—1965
    • Wydler cool toward metric
    • Judge Smith and the little red schoolhouse
    • Senator Pell leads Senate fight—1966
    • Science Committee effort
    • Wydler asks House to defer action
    • The House finally debates metric—1968
    • Chairman Miller as floor leader
    • Terms of the 1968 metric study law
    • Committee briefed on study report
    • Is metrication in the dictionary?
    • Small business opposition
    • Representative John W. Davis and the metric bill
    • Labor insists on tool subsidy
    • Marking up the metric bill—1973
    • Labor sways the Rules Committee
    • Labor and rightwing opposition to metric system
    • Labor and small business gang up
    • Defeat in 1974
    • The Metric Conversion Act of 1975
    • Lloyd plugs for labor bill
    • Symington subcommittee markup
    • Emery fights for 10-year goal
    • Labor pressures renewed
    • Smooth sailing for the metric bill
    • Symington summarizes policy decisions
    • Goldwater and Emery deplore lack of target date
    • Accepting the Senate metric bill
    • President Carter s policy statement on metric
    • A rose by any other name
    • The Highway Administration gaffe
    • From Fahrenheit to Celsius
    • The committee steps into the breach
    • The pluses and minuses of 1977
    • Metric Board finally gets underway—1978
    • GAO report raises doubts
    • Teague spells out intent of Congress
    • Support for metric system in 1979
    • Opposition in 1979
  • XII. SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, 1970-79
    • Will applied research dilute basic research?
    • NSF funding in 1970
    • Subcommittee in 1971
    • The OMB and applied research
    • Research applied to national needs—RANN
    • Subcommittee decisions in 1971
    • Impoundment of NSF funds in 1971
    • A new director for NSF in 1972
    • Counterattack against impoundment
    • The subcommittee in 1973
    • Funding the NSF in 1973
    • Impoundment battle in the House
    • NSF and the abortion issue
    • Improving oversight over NSF
    • Talking with the OMB
    • The NSF in 1974
    • Geographic distribution of NSF funds
    • Symington becomes subcommittee chairman
    • NSF education progress in 1975
    • Conlan attacks MACOS
    • Geographic distribution in 1975
    • Conlan s strategy
    • Teague and MACOS
    • MACOS debated in full committee meeting
    • The floor fight over MACOS in 1975
    • House narrowly defeats Conlan amendment
    • Peer review
    • The Moudy report on MACOS
    • Conlan and the ISIS program
    • GAO report on ISIS
    • 1976 NSF authorization
    • Silly-sounding NSF projects
    • Science for citizens program
    • The controversy escalates
    • Who will blink first?
    • Thornton becomes subcommittee chairman in 1977
    • Organization meeting of the Thornton subcommittee
    • The science for citizens program in 1977
    • Flowers renews fight for wider distribution
    • Floor debate on NSF authorization in 1977
    • NSF authorization hearings in 1978
    • Flowers makes last plea for geographic distribution
    • Floor debate on NSF authorization in 1978
    • Are those NSF grants really so silly?
    • The rationale for basic research
    • The subcommittee in 1979
    • The NSF in 1979
    • Growth in research funding
    • The need for basic research
    • Crazy-sounding grants
    • Department of Education and NSF education programs
    • Basic charter of the National Science Foundation
    • Office of Technology Assessment, 1970-79
    • Los Angeles-San Francisco hearings
    • Symington and the Missouri hearings
    • A rider to the Legislative Reorganization Act
    • Penetrating questions by Wydler
    • Unanimous committee support for OTA bill
    • Hurry, hurry!
    • Interest in technology assessment mounts
    • Surprise
    • Preparing for the floor debate
    • The Henderson and Brooks amendments
    • OTA bill passes with Brooks amendments
    • President signs OTA Act
    • Growing pains and personality problems
    • Other OTA problems involve the subcommittee
    • The Teague report
    • Conclusions on OTA
    • Fire research and development
    • Low priority treatment
    • Congressman Steele carries the ball
    • Miller throws a block
    • America Burning
    • Expanded fire safety legislation passed in 1974
    • Doubling the authorization
    • Flippo and Hollenbeck urge aggressive action
    • Authorization for fire prevention in 1979
    • Standard Reference Data System
    • Practical applications
    • Oversight of National Bureau of Standards
    • Voluntary standards
    • Symington s Bureau of Standards bill
    • NBS oversight hearings in 1977
    • Materials policy research
    • Materials policy handbook
    • Earthquake research and engineering
    • Victory in 1977
    • DNA and genetic engineering
    • Probing at the edges of knowledge
    • Committee discussion in 1971
    • The 1974 and 1976 committee studies
    • Thornton hearings in 1977
    • Considering new legislation on DNA
    • George Brown and guayule
    • The philosopher-politician
    • Overcoming negative objections
    • Successful joint markup session
    • Seeking the formula for compromise
    • Victory!
    • Other subcommittee activities
    • Employment of scientists and engineers
    • Innovation and productivity
    • Intergovernmental science policy
    • Water resources and agriculture
  • XIII. SCIENCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
    • Bipartisan opposition to scuttling of science machinery
    • Long-range approach of Science Committee
    • A national science policy
    • Basic research and NIRAS
    • Dissemination of scientific information
    • New technological opportunities
    • Committee muffs its chance in 1972
    • The reorganisation bombshell
    • Full committee hearings
    • Symington and Goldwater are critical
    • Teague: What is happening and why?
    • The low-key approach
    • The congressional role in science policy
    • The 1974 hearings
    • Careful cooperation with the White House
    • The Killian report
    • Green light to draft a bill
    • Timing the legislative initiative
    • The deliberate strategy
    • Interest of Ford as Vice President
    • Teague and President Ford
    • Yeager s approach
    • Bad news and good news
    • Rockefeller makes his report
    • The first Teague-Mosher bill
    • Nudging the White House toward action
    • A dramatic spectacular
    • Internal debate in the White House
    • The prospects for legislation in 1975
    • Dr. Stever leads off
    • Drafting a new Teague-Mosher bill
    • The July 30 revised bill
    • Negotiations with the White House
    • McCormack and Brown reservations
    • Full committee markup meeting
    • The House ratifies committee decisions
    • Negotiating with three Senate committees