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Exploring the Unknown 139
NASA Headquarters
MEMORANDUM: For Mr. R. R. Gilruth, Director
Project Mercury
Subject: Animal Payloads for Little Joe
June 19, 1959
1. I am enclosing a copy of a memorandum from the Administrator
requesting that only American-born rhesus monkeys will be used in
Mercury flights.
2. I understand that we have been assured by the School of Aviation
Medicine that all rhesus monkeys supplied by them for the Little Joe
flights meet the above requirements. However, I suggest that SAM be
informed that “birth certificates” of these monkeys will be required at
the time of each flight.
George M. Low
Program Chief
Manned Space flight
[handwritten at bottom: “Hindoos might object”]
Attachment:
Memo to George Low
Dtd 15 June 1959
GM: mdp
Cc: Dr. Smith
Dr. Worf
Dr. Henry – Langley STG
Mr. Sanders
Mr. C. Wood without attachment
Mr. W. Hjornevik without attachment
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
1520 H STREET NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON 25, DC
15 June 1959
MEMORANDUM TO:
George Low
Office of Space Flight Development