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On 3 November the Commander of the 4951st at Eniwctok became the Senior
JTF-7 representative in the EPG during the minimum maintenanceperiod.
During an October visit to Eniwetok by Maj.
of JTF-7),
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Gen. Anderson (Commander
the agreement for Eniwetok operation was accepted and the
responsibility was generally divided between the AEC Resident Manager and
the 495l1st Commander.
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In the same time period, the last quarter of calendar year 1959, the military,
under AFSWP, , was addressing a question of the capability for outer space testing and specifically ARDC, the Air Research and Develcpment Command of the
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Air Force, had submitted a proposal. Both thé*éRL proposal and the ARDC proposal saw the Atlas as a prime candidate fcr a carrier. A letter from Adm.
d &® Parker, the Chief of DASA in L952,Nov._o, to Gen. Starbird documents the
& DASA interests in preliminarySfanningand development of an cuter space testing capability and states “provided you concur in the desirability of developIng such a capability,
| am prepared to provide fiscal support for this prelimi-
nary planning under the current DOD guidance which requires us to maintain a
capability to resume testing."
Some correspondence in the November-December
time frame indicates that
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there was an Air Force Scientific Adlysory Board with a “ad hoc committee
on test moratorium" which solicited the assistance of Al ‘Graves and Harold
Agnew.
There is more on this filed under "334 Scientific Advisory Board".
Here, on 8 Nov. 1959, Lt. Col. Otis Moreman, Jr. assumes command of Task
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Group 7.2 at Eniwetok,
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