Space Task Groupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with superintending America's manned spaceflight programs. It was headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. After President John F. Kennedy set the goal of the Apollo Program to land men on the Moon in 1961, NASA decided a much larger organization and a new facility was required to perform the Task Group's function, and it was transformed into the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), located in Houston, Texas.