In 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. During this same period, the Space Task Group (STG) was established by NASA to work at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, in support of the early Mercury Program. 1 The STG eventually became the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) (NASA Johnson Space Center) in the early 1960s. There were three military aeromedical consultants, Drs. Stanley C. White [U.S. Air Force (USAF)], William Augerson (U.S. Army), and Robert Voas (U