FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
James Edwin Webb was the second administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, formally established on October 1, 1958, under the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
Webb was educated at the University of North Carolina, where he received an A.B. in education in 1928.
Webb returned to Washington and served as executive assistant to O. Max Gardner, by then Under Secretary of the Treasury, before being named as director of the Bureau of the Budget in the Executive Office of the President, a position he held until 1949.
JamesWebb was born on October 7, 1906, in Tally Ho, Granville County, North Carolina.
Webb held the view that the space program was more than a race to the moon-it could also be a catalyst for strengthening the nation's universities and industry.
JamesWebb retired from NASA on Oct. 7, 1968, his 62nd birthday, with the Apollo Program well on its way to a moon landing.
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