(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Commander Burton I. Edelson, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Aerospace Assistant to the Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council from June 1962 to July 1965, by his accomplishments in the field of communications and navigation and his contribution to a military communications satellite system.