NASA Historical Advisory Committee

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Historical Advisory Committee was established in 1964.

Contents 1 History 2 Chairmen 3 Members 4 Source

[edit] 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 therr 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.

[edit] Chairmen

• Wood Gray, 1964-1966
• Melvin Kranzeberg, 1966-1970
• Louis Morton, 1970-
• Walter Rundell

[edit] Members

• Daniel J. Boorstein
• David Bushnell
• James L. Cate, 1964-
• A. Hunter Dupree
• I. B. Holley
• Thomas Huges
• Elting E. Morison, 1972-
• Robert P. Muthauf
• Rodman W. Paul
• Robert L. Perry
• John B. Rae

[edit] 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.