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3 days ago · 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.
4 days ago · It was first conceived in 1960 during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-person spacecraft to follow the one-person Project Mercury, which put the first Americans in space.
3 days ago · President Dwight Eisenhower signed the act in 1958, which established NASA as well as U.S. objectives in space: expanding space knowledge; creating and improving space vehicles; studies of benefits from space operation; preserving the United States as a space leader; and sharing discoveries with defense agencies.
5 days ago · Later that year, the U.S. under President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA. Between 1958 and 1961, the U.S. Army transferred much of its space-capabilities to NASA, including its missile programs, development facilities, and technical expertise.
2 days ago · A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history. "This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower."
2 days ago · Dwight D. Eisenhower saw the atrocities of the Holocaust and wanted to ensure the truth couldn't be altered - or denied - in the future. ... Established in November 1944 near ... NASA scientists ...
3 days ago · In 1960, his group was assimilated into NASA, where he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.
