Two volumes. Glennan, T. Keith. The Birth of Nasa: The Diary of T. Keith Glennan. Washington DC: NASA, 1993. 389 pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in publisher's dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Glennan on the half-title to friends, “with gratitude for your strong support.” Kistiakowsky, George B. A Scientist at the White House / The Private Diary of President Eisenhower’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 448 pp. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf “to Spurgeon Keeny with warm memories of bygone times, Nov. 5, 1976, George." These are important original sources about American policy at the start of the post-Sputnik Space Race and are rarely found inscribed, Glennan’s memoir was published when Glennan was 88, less than two years before his death and Kistiakowsky’s diary appeared 15 years after he left presidential service. Glennan, though derided by NASA’s rocket scientists as a “Hollywood man” who had once worked in the movie industry and knew nothing about aeronautics, was a cautious manager who guided the new agency through its formative years of competition with the military. Particularly valuable is the 50 page biographical appendix which gives important information on people named in the diary, from top government officials to leading NASA scientists and engineers like Maxime Faget and Abe Silverstein. Kistiakowsky, a Russian-born Harvard Chemist who had been involved in the Manhattan Project, was the second Science Advisor to President Eisenhower, coming to White House when the “Space Race” competition with the Soviet Union was already in full swing. Though, as Kistiakowsky reveals in his diary, he had little interest in – or appreciation of – the Space program, his chief concern being the problem of arms control, he became deeply involved in the high-level policy-making which divided responsibility for the Mercury and planned Apollo projects between the military and the new NASA. Keeny, the son of a prominent United Nations official in Asia, was Kistiakowsky’s assistant during his service as Eisenhower’s Science Advisor at the height of the US-Soviet “space race”. Keeny later became chief US Arms Control negotiator with the Soviets under President Carter.
Two volumes. Glennan, T. Keith. The Birth of Nasa: The Diary of T. Keith Glennan. Washington DC: NASA, 1993. 389 pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in publisher's dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Glennan on the half-title to friends, “with gratitude for your strong support.” Kistiakowsky, George B. A Scientist at the White House / The Private Diary of President Eisenhower’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 448 pp. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf “to Spurgeon Keeny with warm memories of bygone times, Nov. 5, 1976, George." These are important original sources about American policy at the start of the post-Sputnik Space Race and are rarely found inscribed, Glennan’s memoir was published when Glennan was 88, less than two years before his death and Kistiakowsky’s diary appeared 15 years after he left presidential service. Glennan, though derided by NASA’s rocket scientists as a “Hollywood man” who had once worked in the movie industry and knew nothing about aeronautics, was a cautious manager who guided the new agency through its formative years of competition with the military. Particularly valuable is the 50 page biographical appendix which gives important information on people named in the diary, from top government officials to leading NASA scientists and engineers like Maxime Faget and Abe Silverstein. Kistiakowsky, a Russian-born Harvard Chemist who had been involved in the Manhattan Project, was the second Science Advisor to President Eisenhower, coming to White House when the “Space Race” competition with the Soviet Union was already in full swing. Though, as Kistiakowsky reveals in his diary, he had little interest in – or appreciation of – the Space program, his chief concern being the problem of arms control, he became deeply involved in the high-level policy-making which divided responsibility for the Mercury and planned Apollo projects between the military and the new NASA. Keeny, the son of a prominent United Nations official in Asia, was Kistiakowsky’s assistant during his service as Eisenhower’s Science Advisor at the height of the US-Soviet “space race”. Keeny later became chief US Arms Control negotiator with the Soviets under President Carter.
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