A Brief History of NASA
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Aerospace Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Organization:NASA HIstory Division |
| Description: | "An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes." With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the national Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA's birth was directly related to the pressures of national defense. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, a broad contest over the ideologies and allegiances of the nonaligned nations. During this period, space exploration emerged as a major area of contest and became known as the space race." |
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| Publication Date: | June 2008 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://history.nasa.gov/factsheet.htm |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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