 NASA History A look through the years. Beginnings  NASA was created by congress on October 1, 1958 as a way of competing with the Soviet Union at the.

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 NASA History A look through the years

Beginnings  NASA was created by congress on October 1, 1958 as a way of competing with the Soviet Union at the time in the race for space exploration.  NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  In 1957 the Soviets launched the first satellite into space named Sputnik 1, in 1958, the United States followed suit and launched Explorer 1.

 “A direct result of the Sputnik crisis, NASA began operations on October 1, 1958, absorbing into itself the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics intact: its 8,000 employees, an annual budget of $100 million, three major research laboratories-Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory-and two smaller test facilities. It quickly incorporated other organizations into the new agency, notably the space science group of the Naval Research Laboratory in Maryland, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed by the California Institute of Technology for the Army, and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama, where Wernher von Braun's team of engineers were engaged in the development of large rockets. Eventually NASA created other Centers and today it has ten located around the country.” – NASA History page

Major Space Programs  Mercury's single astronaut program ( )  Project Gemini (flights during )  Project Apollo (flights during )

Other Programs  Robotic missions to the Moon Ranger, Surveyor, and Lunar Orbiter), Venus (Pioneer Venus), Mars (Mariner 4, Viking 1 and 2), and the outer planets (Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2).  Remote-sensing Earth satellites for information gathering (Landsat satellites for environmental monitoring).  Applications satellites for communications (Echo 1, TIROS, and Telstra) and weather monitoring.  An orbital workshop for astronauts, Skylab.  A reusable spacecraft for traveling to and from Earth orbit, the Space Shuttle.

Mercury Programs  Mercury’s goal was to put a man in space and orbit Earth.  On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American to fly into space.  John H. Glenn Jr. became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth on February 20,  Project Mercury has six flights all together.

Gemini Program  Project Gemini continued what Mercury's program has accomplished.  Gemini's had 10 flights and provided NASA scientists and engineers with more data on weightlessness, perfected reentry and splashdown procedures, and demonstrated rendezvous and docking in space.  Edward H. White, Jr., became the first U.S. astronaut to conduct a spacewalk on Gemini 4.

Apollo Program  Objective: Put a man on the moon and explore the moon.  John F. Kennedy said, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.”  NASA spent 11 years trying to put a man on the moon. It cost the program 25.4 Billion dollars.

 In 1967, one of the Apollo capsules caught fire and caused the death of three inside.  Apollo 7 and 8 orbited the moon.

 "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong  Apollo 11 landed on the moon with Neil Armstrong by being the first man to walk on the moon.  Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins.

Apollo 13  The Apollo 13 mission of April 1970 had a tragedy struck after an oxygen tank burst midway through the journey to the Moon.  Although this mission never landed on the Moon, it showed that NASA could adapt to the unforeseen technical difficulties in human spaceflight.

Future  After six years NASA returned to human spaceflight in 1981, with the Space Shuttle.  January 28, 1986 a leak in the joints of one of two Solid Rocket Boosters attached to the Challenger caused the tank to explode 73 seconds after launch, killing all 7 crew members.

 Two years later, on September 29, 1988, the Shuttle returned to flight and NASA flew 87 successful missions afterwards

 The U.S. and other international in 1993 built a joint facility that became known formally as the International Space Station (ISS) to conduct experiments and space exploration.  On February 1, 2003 the Columbia orbiter was returning to Earth from it’s mission and it disintegrated 15 minutes before it was to have landed killing all who were on board.

 NASA is continuing it’s efforts to explore the depths of space by pursuing to land on Mars next and find future galaxies.