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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Due to the limitations of size and time inherent in a thesis, this work will not be a detailed, all-encompassing history of the Wallops Station. This thesis will focus on the political, administrative, and social history aspects of the base form 1957 to 1966. It is arranged in five chapters.

Langley Aeronautical Laboratory originally established the facility at Wallops Island in 1945 to fulfill an urgent wartime requirement for a test range to provide militarily vital aeronautical engineering data. Today the base serves scientists as the nation's only civilian controlled launch range supporting a wide assortment of research projects; a radical change.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Table of Contents.

-Acknowledgment.

-About the Author.

-List of Acronyms.

-Maps of Wallops.

-I. Introduction.

-II. Sputnik, NASA, and Independence.

-III. Piloted Space Flight.

-IV. Space Science Research.

-V. Changes Amid Constancy.

-Appendix 1. Research Vs. Developmental Launches, NACA Era.

-Appendix 2. Organizational Charts.

-Appendix 3. Wallops' Complement.

-Appendix 4. Selected International Cooperative Programs.

-Appendix 5. Wallops' Funding.

-Note On Sources.

-Selected Bibliography.

-Index.

-The NASA History Series.