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483-5111 May 18, 1970
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HOUSTON, TEXAS---Nell Armstrong, the first man to set foot on
the Moon, and one of the nation's foremost engineering test pilots,
has been named to head the Aeronautics Program of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Armstrong_ commander of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission,
becomes Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics_ Office of
Advanced Research and Technology at NASA Headquarters Washington,
effective July 1, 1970.
He succeeds Charles W. Harper who is joining Dr. Wernher yon
Braun_ NASA Deputy Associate Administrator in carrying out the
agency's planning effort for future U.S. aeronautics and space missions.
In his new posit_on, Armstrong will be responsible for the
coordination and management of over-all NASA research and technology
work related to aeronautics and cooperation and coordination between
NASA, industry and other govermaent agencies w±th respect to
aeronautics.
NASA conducts a broad program in aeronautics including aerodynamics,
loads and structures, propulsion, operational enviror_nent
problems and flight dynamics. The program is directed towards all
types of aireraft_ both civilian and military in the areas of general
aviation, vertical and short take-off and landing aircraft, subsonic
aircraft, supersonic, hypersonic aircraft and other advanced aviation
technologies.
NASA in the past few years has been devoting some $75 mill_on
of its annual budget for aeronautics. The Fiscal Year 1971 budget
request calls for $87 million in aeronautics research.
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