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- been late summer of last
year. I went down and talked, and my main--the main question I had, which I vacillated
on for a month or so was [that] simply, I didn't know anything about transportation. I
more naturally fitted into the military, NASA
- there. In '58 I was made
chairman of the department. My next connection with Washington was in '58, after
Sputnik. I went on to the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Science to
consider our own space program. NASA was just being formed