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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.
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 ...
[1] [a] In total, the song contains 118 [2] [3] or 119 [4] [5] [b] references to historical people, places, events, and phenomena. [6] The idea for creating a song chronicling news events and personalities originally came to Joel from a conversation he had with Sean Lennon , wherein Lennon claimed that nothing of note happened in the news ...
"Countdown" is a song by Rush from their 1982 album Signals. Its lyrics are about the first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia the previous year. [2] The song incorporates audio from voice communications between astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen and ground control, specifically Ascent CAPCOM Daniel C. Brandenstein and with commentary from Hugh Harris, Kennedy Space Center Public ...
Julie London included a cover of the song for her 1963 album The End of the World. [33] Paul Anka released a version of "Fly Me To The Moon" in 1963, appearing in his album Our Man Around the World. [34] Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, accompanied by Count Basie. [35]
Mission engineers played a song each day to inspire Opportunity to turn back on. The rover lasted far longer than its 90-day expected lifetime. For 15 years, NASA engineers played the Opportunity ...
On July 29, 1958, the US Congress passed legislation turning the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with responsibility for the nation's civilian space programs.
NASA did not say why it chose to transmit a song into space again — just the second time after The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” was sent to the North Star, Polaris, in 2008.