Public Law 90–101

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation commemorating fifty years of service to the Nation by the Langley Research Center.

Whereas this calendar year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment in 1917 of the Langley Research Center at Hampton, Virginia; and

Whereas the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for forty-one years a facility of the former National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, has provided a continuing technological basis for significant advances in military and commercial aviation; and

Whereas pioneering scientific investigations conducted by the Langley Research Center contributed to the development over the years of unique facilities, research techniques, and the technical competence required to establish and maintain this country’s leadership in aeronautics; and

Whereas the Langley Research Center was the birthplace of Project Mercury—the first United States manned space flight project; and

Whereas the Langley Research Center is one of the major research facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration engaged in significant programs of advanced research and technology relating to aeronautics and the manned and unmanned exploration of space, including, among others, the development of the supersonic transport, vertical and short takeoff and landing aircraft, the Apollo lunar mission, and a variety of other projects designed to accelerate our flight progress and expand our knowledge of the universe: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Approved October 3, 1967.