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BACKGROUND AND QUESTIONS ON NASA'S ROLE IN AERONAUTICS
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... Frosch Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Art Buchwald enunciated what is known around Washington as Buchwald's theorem when he said that the way to succeed in Washington is to fail. Having observed the Washington scene for a while, he concluded that it was precisely those portions of the government that failed in solving problems that received the greatest attention.
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... Nearly everything else is in some sense in contention. So, one way to put a class of questons to this group is to say, "Where are the boundary lines, or in what areas between pure aeronautical research and the actual construction of prototypes or final flying machines should the NASA program reside?
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