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NASA Turns 50

Posted by kdawson on from the make-a-wish dept.

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."

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  1. ah, for a moon landing flame war... by Digitus1337 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

      Exactly. The moon landing was obviously filmed in a studio in the Hollow Earth. Gravity is lower inside the Earth, since there is more mass on all sides, so it was the perfect location to fake the landing. It was also filmed inside the largest vaccuum chamber ever built to replicate the lack of air on the moon. I don't understand why more people haven't realized these obvious truths.

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    2. Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... by rarel · · Score: 5, Funny

      i ve seen the space shuttle ass hole it definetly landed on the moon do some research...

    3. Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      i ve seen the space shuttle ass hole

      It has one of those?

  2. Re:Wowzers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You failed to capitalize the first word of your sentence. Never post again.

  3. Thank you, Captain Obvious by 6Yankee · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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?