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NASA Turns 50
phobos13013 writes "Fifty years ago yesterday, in 1958, President Eisenhower signed the United States Public Law 85-568, National Aeronautics and Space Act to create NASA. In the fifty years since its creation, NASA has made manned missions landing on the Moon, put a space station in orbit, launched numerous unmanned missions to the Moon, Mars, the solar system, and beyond, as well as launching reusable manned spacecraft in orbit. Some of the failures included the loss of two manned spacecraft and their crews as well as the loss of the Apollo 1 crew during a training mission. Although the future of the organization is in question, Americans, and the world, are looking forward to another fifty years of progress including a return trip to the Moon and an eventual manned mission to Mars."
I'll go ahead and start us off.
We obviously didn't land on the moon, check out the alleged videos, the astronauts jump but don't fly away. Learn some science, you people are sheep.
That should do it, please discuss.
You failed to capitalize the first word of your sentence. Never post again.
Happy anniversary!
...Spain, England and the Dutch took up the effort and built globe spanning empires.
Not exactly something to be proud of, considering how they did it and all. It just means that the Chinese will be enslaving little green men to toil in their underground sugar cave. And I for one...
What?
Is NASA going to retire, or is it going to do the standard boomer thing of working until it dies because of no retirement plans.
"Fifty years ago yesterday, in 1958"
I presume this was for the benefit of any NASA engineers who can't convert between metric and Imperial years?
There, That should help them get funding. George please take note.