New Space Study Institutes

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is establishing a theoretical research group (the Goddard Institute for Space Studies) in New York City. Attached to the Theoretical Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center, located near Washington, D.C., the group in New York will be under the direction of Robert Jastrow, who will also retain his present position as chief of the Theoretical Division at the Space Flight Center. The staff of the new Institute will number about fifty, drawn nearly equally from the disciplines of astronomy, physics, and the earth sciences, and will be aided by scientists from nearby universities, a number of whom have already agreed to accept appointments as part‐time consultants.