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Short documentary on the origins of NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created in 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other related organizations, as the result of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub. L. 85–568) is the United States federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Act, which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union 's launch of Sputnik , was drafted by the United States House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space ...
The Headquarters of the Space Task Group (STG) at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia Sign on the Space Task Group building in June 1961. The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with managing America's human spaceflight programs.
On July 29, 1958, the U.S. Congress officially passed legislation that established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- a civilian agency that is responsible for ...
Whitson spoke to the president from space in April aboard the International Space Station and while flying back home after breaking the record for most time in space by a U.S. astronaut in September. Koch is a member of NASA's astronaut class of 2013. On December 20, 2019, the United States Space Force was established with the passing of NDAA ...
NASA was established on July 29, 1958, with the signing of the National Aeronautics and Space Act and it began operations on October 1, 1958. [4] As the US's premier aeronautics agency, NACA formed the core of NASA's new structure by reassigning 8,000 employees and three major research laboratories.
This week, learn why a lunar time scale is needed before humans return to the moon, meet the faces of Scotland’s ancient past, spy “salty licorice” cats, and more.
NASA/Chris Gunn; NASA NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is by far the most powerful observatory ever launched into space. Even Webb's very first images show why NASA spent 25 years and $10 billion.