Exploring the Unknown - NASA's History Office

I-11 President John F. Kennedy to Honorable Newton Minow, Chairman,
Federal Communications Commission, May 15, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
I-12 Ben F. Waple, Acting Secretary, Federal Communications
Commission, “An Inquiry Into the Administrative and Regulatory
Problems Relating to the Authorization of Commercially Operable
Space Communications Systems: First Report,” FCC Report 61-676,
4774, Docket No. 14024, May 24, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
I-13 National Aeronautics and Space Council, “Communication
Satellites,” July 14, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
I-14 Emanuel Celler, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, House of
Representatives, et al., to the President, August 24, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
I-15 Frederick G. Dutton, Assistant to the President, Memorandum for
the President, November 13, 1961. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
I-16–I-18 Senator Robert S. Kerr, “Amendment to the National Aeronautics
and Space Act of 1958, Space Communications,” November 28, 1961;
E.C. Welsh, Executive Secretary, National Aeronautics and Space
Council, Executive Office of the President, Memorandum to the
President, April 11, 1962; and “Communications Satellite Act of 1962,”
Public Law 87-624, 76 Stat. 419, signed by the President on
August 31, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
I-19 Edward A. Bolster, Department of State, to Mr. Johnson,
Memorandum, “Space Communication,” May 3, 1962; with attached:
“Role of the Department of State in Space Communication
Development” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
I-20 Project Telstar, “Preliminary Report, Telstar I, July–September 1962,”
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
I-21 Memorandum from J.D. O’Connell, Special Assistant to the President
for Telecommunications and Director of the Office of Telecommunications
Management, to the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense,
Secretary of Commerce, Administrator, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, and Chairman, Federal Communications
Commission, “Policy Concerning U.S. Assistance in the Development
of Foreign Communications Satellite Capabilities,” September 17,
1965, with attached: National Security Action Memorandum 338 . . . . . 91
I-22 National Security Action Memorandum No. 342, “U.S. Assistance in
the Early Establishment of Communications Satellite Service for
Less-Developed Nations,” March 4, 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
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