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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
4 November 1955
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Log 8!
Colonel Richard Hirech
Operations Coordinating Board
Room A 404
708 Jackson Place
Washington, D. C.
Dear Colone) Hirsch:
Attached for your review is a paper prepared by Hubertus
Strughold, PHD, MD, Chief, Department of Space Medicine, USAF
School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Texas, on "Medical
Problems Involved in Orbital Space Flight." The paper is to be
given at the Space Medicine Session, American Rocket Society
Anmal Meeting, at the Diamond Jubilee Annual Meeting of The
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, in Chicago, Illinois,
November 13-18.
As this paper relates to satellites, I have reviewed it with
the National Science Foundation and the National Academy,
The
Department of Defense proposes to release the attached paper and this
action is concurred in by the National Academy and the Science Foundation, subject to our instructing the author that he mst in no way
relate this paper or hie address to the current scientific satellite
program.
It would be appreciated if you could telephone me and advise me
of your views in connection with this action,
Sincerely yours,
C. Uwe
CHARLES
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