NASA Historical Advisory Committee
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA
) Historical Advisory Committee was established in 1964.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
) Historical Advisory Committee was established in 1964.
History
The NASA Historical Office was established under its first chief historian, Dr. Eugene Emme in 1960. The committee was first made up of a wide variety of members, who initially sought to find support and prestige for the new historical program. From 1969-70, the committee began to be increasingly composed of professional historians from universities, who made known their dissatisfaction with the NASA historical program. As a result, the Historical Advisory Committee was reduced in size and reorganized to be composed of only university-based professional historians to oversee the work of the NASA Historical Office.Chairmen
- Wood Gray, 1964-1966
- Melvin Kranzeberg, 1966-1970
- Louis Morton, 1970-
- Walter Rundell
Members
- Daniel J. Boorstein
- David Bushnell
- James L. CateJames L. CateProfessor James L. Cate was an Air Force intelligence official and part of the Air Force Historical Division during World War II, and author of at least two pieces of Air Force literature, one entitled Origins of the Eighth Air Force: Plans, Organization, Doctrines, the other entitled History of...
, 1964- - A. Hunter DupreeA. Hunter DupreeAnderson Hunter Dupree is a distinguished American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States.-Early Education and Education:...
- I. B. Holley
- Thomas P. HughesThomas P. HughesThomas Parke Hughes is an American Historian of Technology. He is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and is a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford.He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1953....
- Elting E. Morison, 1972-
- Robert P. Multhauf
- Rodman W. Paul
- Robert L. Perry
- John B. RaeJohn B. RaeJohn B. Rae was an American labor leader.He had served as president of the Knights of Labor Assembly 135, a coal miners' union.He and John McBride co-founded the United Mine Workers of America in 1890, and Rae served as the labor union's first president....
Source
- Rodman W. Paul, "Historical Advisory Committees: NASA and the National Archives," The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 44, no. 3 (August 1975), pp. 385-394.