Homer Edward Newell, Jr. (1915-1983) was a mathematics professor and author who became a powerful United States government science administratoreventually rising to the number ...
it was physicists who were most interested in sending experiments to space on rockets, but geoscientists gave them a new destination. In 1959, the chemist Harold Urey convinced NASAs new assistant director for space sciences, Homer Newell, that the Moon would be an interesting scientific target. R