Kentucky Library and Museum online -- Letter from NASA Director Richard Truly to William H. Natcher

	Letter, 1989
	Letter written by NASA Director Richard H. Truly
	William H. Natcher Collection
	Item/Collection Note: "One of the most fascinating years that I ever spent in my life was the year of 1958 when I served on the Select Committee on Astronautics and Outer Space and during this time we prepared the space law and set up the space committee. We started moving and now have landed men on the moon. The Soviet Union has been unable to land a man on the moon notwithstanding the fact that on October 4, 1957 they succeeded in orbiting the earth when we were unable to place a satellite in orbit that weighed as much as ten pounds." [Journal vol. XXVII, p.6,761, April 21, 1972]

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