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political aspects that others in Kennedy's administration were. Wiesner believed that the space program would continue making scientific advancements even without man. Also, he highlighted the disaster that would come out of a failure to place a man into orbit or causing the death of an astronaut, saying it "would create a situation of serious national embarrassment". These two points were among the many reasons Wiesner did not want to send man into space.
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The Wiesner Report, as it was called, outlined to Kennedy Wiesner's advice to not continue with the crewed space program, Project Mercury. The President's Science Advisory Committee highlighted the skepticism of the scientific elite about sending humans into space. Wiesner was not concerned with the
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Before Kennedy took office, Wiesner chaired a task force which issued a report to the President-elect on January 10, 1961, warning of "inadequate planning and direction" and "the lack of outstanding scientists and engineers" in its space efforts, and expressing his opposition to crewed space flight,
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to hedge by calling the decision tentative, keeping the Earth-orbit rendezvous and direct-ascent methods as possible backups, but still maintaining, "We find that by adding one vehicle to those already under development, namely, the lunar excursion vehicle, we have an excellent opportunity to
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honored the appointment in 1964. After leaving the White House, Wiesner returned to MIT as Dean of the School of Science, became Provost in 1966, and served as President from 1971 to 1980. He was also elected a life member of the MIT Corporation.
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to meet Kennedy's goal of landing men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, Wiesner had created a Space Vehicle Panel, chaired by Nicolas Golovin, to monitor and second-guess NASA. The SVP forced NASA to defend its decision to develop the
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to candidate LEM contractors. Wiesner finally relented, unwilling to settle the dispute once and for all in Kennedy's office, because of the President's involvement with the October
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Wiesner's obituary described him as "a key figure in the Kennedy administration in the establishment of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, in achieving the October 1963
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In 1940, Wiesner married Laya Wainger, a fellow mathematics major he met at UM. The same year, he was appointed chief engineer for the Acoustical and Record Laboratory of the
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But Golovin and Wiesner kept up the pressure, Wiesner at one point making the disagreement public during a two-day September visit by the President to
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development. He became an associate member of the laboratory's steering committee, and led "Project Cadillac", which developed the forerunner of the
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Greenberg DS (May 1963). "Pesticides: White House Advisory Body Issues Report Recommending Steps to Reduce Hazard to Public".
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accomplish this mission with a shorter time span, with a saving of money, and with equal safety to any other modes."
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as a means to achieving Kennedy's goal of landing men on the Moon. At Kennedy's direction, he investigated
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Shortly before his assassination in November 1963, Kennedy decided to replace Wiesner as PSAC chair with
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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House Science and Astronautics Committee, Defense Space interests, 87th Cong., 1st sess. (1961), p. 19.
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Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept
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Pre-ignition phenomena in gas switching tubes and related rectifier burnout problems
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Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
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American electrical engineer, science policy adviser, and university president
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Wiesner was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Jewish immigrants from
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President emeritus Jerome Wiesner is dead at 79 October 26, 1994
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Born in Detroit of first-generation Jewish parents from Silesia
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In the wake of controversy surrounding the 1962 publication of
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Report to the President-Elect of the Ad Hoc Committee on Space
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defense systems. While MIT president, he was put on President
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and raised in Dearborn. He attended Fordson High School.
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He was an outspoken critic of crewed exploration of
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Index

Jerome B. Wiesner

President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howard Johnson
Paul Gray
Office of Science and Technology
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
George Kistiakowsky
Donald Hornig
Detroit
Michigan
Watertown, Massachusetts
University of Michigan
BS
MS
PhD
IEEE Founders Medal
Vannevar Bush Award
Electrical engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Los Alamos Laboratory
Thesis
Pre-ignition phenomena in gas switching tubes and related rectifier burnout problems
electrical engineering
John F. Kennedy
Science Advisory Committee
University of Michigan
National Music Camp
Interlochen, Michigan

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