Eventually, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia, Japan, and Canada began to visit UARRP meetings. The idea of a ãThird Polar Yearä was proposed, which would be a worldwide cooperative program of geophysical investigations, to take place in 1957-58. Representatives from the UARRP formed a Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (SCIGY). Itâs membership was as follows:
H.E. Newell, Naval Research Laboratory (chairman)
J.W. Townsend Jr., Naval Research Laboratory,
(executive secretary)
John Hanessian, Jr., National Academy of
Sciences, (recording secretary)
K.A. Anderson, State University of Iowa
Warren Berning, Ballistic Research Laboratories
L.M. Jones, University of Michigan
R.M. Slavin, Air Force Cambridge Research Center
N.W. Spencer, University of Michigan
W.G. Stroud, Signal Engineering Laboratories
With newly formed international contacts, the
United States Rocket Panel set up rocket launching facilities in Fort Churchill,
Canada for the IGY. An Aerobee tower and Nike-Cajun launcher were
built, and of the 60 rockets fired there, half were instrumented by the
University of Michigan.
