American Decades
Creation of NASA
U.S. Objectives in Space Exploration
and Science
Report
By: S. Everett Gleason
Date: March 7, 1958
Source: Gleason, S. Everett. Discussion, 357th Meeting of the National Security Council Concerning "U.S. Objectives in Space Exploration and Science." March 6, 1958. Available online at http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/Sputnik/Sputnikdocument... ; website home page: http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu (accessed June 18, 2003).
About the Author: S. Everett Gleason served as deputy executive secretary of the National Security Council. Together with William L. Langer, Gleason wrote the book The Challenge of Isolation: The World Crisis of 1937–1940 and American Foreign Policy (New York: Harper Brothers, 1952).
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
