The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

) Historical Advisory Committee was established in 1964.

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 to 1970, the committee began to be increasingly composed of professional historians from universities, who made known their 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.

Chairmen

Wood Gray Wood Gray (March 19, 1905 - June 27, 1977) was a history professor at George Washington University, public speaker, and writer. He specialized in American social history and the history of the American Civil War. He was a consultant for the United ...

, 1964-1966 * Melvin Kranzeberg, 1966-1970 *

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, 1970- * Walter Rundell

Members

Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in ...

David Bushnell David Bushnell (August 30, 1740 – 1824 or 1826), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, one of the first American combat engineers, a teacher, and a medical doctor. Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in ...

* James L. Cate, 1964- *

A. Hunter Dupree Anderson Hunter Dupree (29 January 1921 – 30 November 2019) was an American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States. He died in November 2019 at the age of 98. Early education T ...

* I. B. Holley * Thomas P. Hughes * Elting E. Morison, 1972- *

Robert P. Multhauf Robert P. Multhauf (1919–2004) was an American science historian, curator, director, scientific scholar and author. He served as president of the History of Science Society in the year 1979-80, and was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 1987. ...

Rodman W. Paul Rodman Wilson Paul (1912–1987) was an American historian who taught at the California Institute of Technology. He was known primarily as a foremost authority on California mining and agricultural Native American history. Life and career Paul ...

* Robert L. Perry *

John B. Rae John B. Rae (June 4, 1838 – May 24, 1922) was an American trade union, labor leader. He served as the president of the Knights of Labor Assembly 135, a coal mining, coal miners' union. He and John McBride (labor leader), John McBride co-founded ...

Sources

, "Historical Advisory Committees: NASA and the National Archives," '' Pacific Historical Review'', vol. 44, no. 3 (August 1975), pp. 385–394. History organizations based in the United States Historians of technology Historians of aviation Historians of the United States