1962 NASA 5th REPORT TO CONGRESS, START of MERCURY and APOLLO

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1962 NASA 5th REPORT TO CONGRESS, START of MERCURY and APOLLO
1962 NASA 5th REPORT TO CONGRESS, START of MERCURY and APOLLO
[James Webb] National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
FIFTH SEMIANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS, OCTOBER 1, 1960 THROUGH JUNE 30, 1961
(NASA, Washington, DC, May, 28, 1962) Original stiff wrapper binding (softcover), 224 pp. Illustrated with photographs and folding chart. Lower corner bumped, small tear at spine to lower front cover; slight soil; Good overall.
Probably the most important of NASA’s early Congressional reports, covering the start of the Mercury Manned Space Flight program after the transition from the Eisenhower to Kennedy Administrations, and the foundation of Apollo after President Kennedy’s momentous speech of May 25, 1961   - one week before publication of this booklet – announcing the “dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade.”