Memo from NACA Associate Director Floyd L. Thompson Regarding the Dissolution of Computers Unit

5/5/1958

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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Associate Director Floyd Thompson sent this memorandum to all NACA facilities and stations. It notified them that the West Area Computers Unit was dissolved and listed those NACA employees who had worked in that unit and where they would be reassigned. NACA was the predecessor to NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; it was incorporated into NASA in 1958.

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NACA- Langley
May 5, 1958

[handwritten] [E 26-26 crossed out] E 27-7

MEMORANDUM For All Concerned
Subject: Change in research organization

1. Effective this date, the West Area Computer Unit is dissolved. The personnel formerly assigned to this unit are reassigned as follows:

Marjorie B. Peddrew- Gas Dynamics Branch
Isabelle C. Mann- Gas Dynamics Branch
Lorraine F. Satchell- Supersonic Tunnels Branch
Arminta S. Cooke- Supersonic Tunnels Branch
Hester L. Lovely- 20-Inch Hypersonic Jet Section
Daisy W. Alston- 20-Inch Hypersonic Jet Section
Christine B. Richie- International Aerodynamics Branch
Pearl B. Bassette- 11-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel Section
Eunice G. Smith- Ground Loads Branch
Dorothy J. Vaughan- Analytical Computing Branch

[signed] Floyd L. Thompson
Floyd L. Thompson
Associate Director

EHD. Eac
Copies to: All Laboratory Organizational Units
NACA Headquarters
Files (3)
[handwritten] 4/24/58

[handwritten] E26- 3e

This primary source comes from the Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

National Archives Identifier: 81215360

Full Citation: Memo from NACA Associate Director Floyd L. Thompson to all NACA Installations Regarding the Dissolution of the West Area Computers Unit; 5/5/1958; File E27-7 Special File; Subject Correspondence Files, 1918 - 1978; Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Record Group 255; National Archives at Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/naca-computers, February 13, 2025]

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