Happy 65th Birthday NASA!

HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY NASA!
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Happy birthday to NASA, which was founded on July 29, 1958, during President Eisenhower’s second term in office. Following WWII, the Department of Defense saw the need to research fields of rocketry and upper atmosphere sciences to ensure American technological superiority.
President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing NASA. The developing agency absorbed the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics which was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. That committee was dissolved on October 1, 1958, and its assets and personnel formed the core of the newly created NASA.
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