History of NASA
                     
History of NASA 



History of NASA 

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA), independent U.S. governmental agency 
established in 1958 for the development and research 
of vehicles and activities for trying to find space 
within and from doorways Earth’s atmosphere. 
 


The business includes four mission directorates: 
Aeronautics Research, to build up advanced aviation 
technologies Science, dealing with programs for 
comprehending the origin, structure, and evolution in 
the world, the solar system, and Earth Space 
Technology, to build up space science and 
exploration technologies and Human Exploration 
and processes, concerning the treating of manned 
space missions, including individuals for your 


Worldwide Space Station, in addition to operations 
connected with launch services, space transportation, 
and space communications for manned and 
automatic exploration programs. 


Numerous additional research centres are affiliated, 
like the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, 
Maryland the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 
Pasadena, California the Manley Space Center in 
Houston, Texas combined with the Langley Research 
Center in Hampton, Virginia. Headquarters of NASA 
are available in Washington, D.C. 
 


NASA was created mainly because of the Soviet 
launching of Sputnik in 1957. It absolutely was 
organized within the National Advisory Committee 
for Aeronautics (NACA), it absolutely was created by 
Congress in 1915. NASA’s organization was well 
shown tabs on the very first years of . John F. 
Kennedy’s administration as they recommended the 
united states . states . States convey a man over the 
Moon while using finish inside the 1960s. 
 


NASA came out to obtain responsible for the 
marriage and launching of numerous satellites with 
Earth applications, for instance Landsat, numerous 
satellites designed to collect information on natural 
sources as well as other Earth features 
communications satellites and weather satellites. 
Additionally, it planned and developed the place 
shuttle, a multiple-use vehicle able to transporting 
out missions that won't conducted with conventional 
spacecraft. 
 


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