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Discover the history of NASA, including our human spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs, and explore the NASA History Office's publications and oral histories.
60 Moments in NASA History. In six decades, NASA has had too many achievements to easily catalogue on one web page. Listed below are 60 of the most important that have laid the groundwork for the agency’s current programs and future endeavors. 1958 - 2018
Explore this ever-expanding collection of mission profiles, biographies, articles, e-books, chronologies, and source documents spanning the history of the NACA and NASA.
Humanity's first reusable spacecraft, the space shuttle carried people into orbit repeatedly; launched, recovered and repaired satellites; conducted cutting-edge research; and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station.
The NASA History Office serves two key functions: fulfilling the mandate of the 1958 “Space Act” calling for NASA to disseminate aerospace information as widely as possible, and helping NASA managers understand and thus benefit from the study of past accomplishments and difficulties.
NASA History. The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub.L. 85-568) created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Section 20112 (a)(3) of the Act directs NASA "to provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning NASA activities and the results thereof."
NASA, independent U.S. governmental agency established in 1958 for the research and development of vehicles and activities for space exploration. NASA was created largely in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957, and its headquarters are in Washington, D.C.