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Hugh Latimer Dryden
Hugh Latimer Dryden
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Young Hugh attended public schools and a high school, then called Baltimore College, graduating in 1913 just short of age fifteen. Entering Johns Hopkins University with advanced standing, he completed a regular Bachelor of Arts curriculum in three years, receiving his degree with honors in 1916 and his Master of Arts degree in 1918.
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Joseph S Ames, Head of the Johns Hopkins Physics Department and Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, his plans were changed.
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Interest generated by this work led to the construction of many high-speed wind tunnels and was of pioneering significance when jet and rocket propulsion made supersonic and hypersonic flight feasible. Although Dr.
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His less-known contributions ranged over aircraft noise, ventilating fans, aerodynamic design of' aircraft control surfaces, automobile streamlining, and aerodynamic cooling. As time passed, Hugh Dryden's management responsibilities at the Bureau ol' Standards grew, and he I'ound less time for his own research.
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The development of high-speed wind tunnels, flight testing, and a companion competence for theoretical research within the NACA contributed substantially to the leadership of the United States in supersonic flight.
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It is important to realize, however, that the real value and purposes are not in the mere accomplishment of' man setting foot on the moon, but rather in the great cooperative national effort in the development of' science and technology which is stimulated by this goal.... The national enterprise involved in the goal of' manned lunar landing and return lecithin the decade is an activity with critical impact on the future of' this nation as an industrial and military power, and as a leader of' a free world.
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However, his professional integrity may have antagonized members of the House Select Space Committee when he objected to an untested crash program to put a man on top of a missile in a suborbital space flight for propaganda purposes. He said this would have no more value "than shooting a woman out of a cannon at a circus." The first NASA Administrator, President T
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In 1959, he was appointed to assist Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge at the first meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. His activities were largely responsible for a proposal by NASA in December of that year, for joint research with other nations to promote international space cooperation.
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It is fair to state that Dryden's 1920 work on supersonic aerodynamics led consistently to operational supersonic airplanes, the famous rocket-propelled X-15, and successful manned space flight. On February 10, 1966, the President of the United States presented to Mrs.
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to Dr. Dryden: "For contributions, as an engineer, administrator, and civil servant for ore-half' century, to aeronautics and astronautics which have immeasurably supported the Nation's preeminence in space." Man's steps in the advance ot' the art ol' flight are marked by the names ol' many researchers, designers, and flyers, but Hugh Dryden's name is rarely mentioned.
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