Have you ever thought about what happens at NASA, or how it came to be what it is today? Many intelligent people helped in the creation of NASA. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is the one who allowed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to be possible though. Eisenhower does this by signing the NASA Act on July 29th, 1958. After World War II NASA’s first administrator, T. Keith Glennan had been appointed by Eisenhower. Now, space technology was improving and on the rise of competition with other countries to go into space. Although this was a great improvement for the United States there were challenges to face still. Some of these challenges were “Developing rockets that could carry machines and humans into space, learning
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It is stated that “It may well be argued the NASA has become the world’s premier agent for exploration, carrying on in “the new ocean” of outer space a long tradition of expanding the physical and mental boundaries of humanity”. Being able to go into space and knowing more about it was a major fascination for people. Knowing the unknown caught the attention of many. All around the country people listened to their radios and televisions to be updated on the newest information on NASA. What really hit it off for NASA was the launching of ‘Sputnik’ on October 4th, 1957 shortly followed by its successors. The Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. The launching of the Sputnik is said that “This technological triumph alarmed Americans, who took it as a sign that the United States of America was falling behind the Soviet Union in missile technology”. The president said he wasn’t worried about falling behind other countries because they hadn’t done much. Therefore there wasn’t much to surpass those other countries by. Another reason why Congress had created NASA was to help coordinate research in rocket science and space exploration. There was another act pass and this was the National Defense Education Act ( NDEA ). This act provided the funds for education and training in the arts of science, math, and foreign
It is stated that “It may well be argued the NASA has become the world’s premier agent for exploration, carrying on in “the new ocean” of outer space a long tradition of expanding the physical and mental boundaries of humanity”. Being able to go into space and knowing more about it was a major fascination for people. Knowing the unknown caught the attention of many. All around the country people listened to their radios and televisions to be updated on the newest information on NASA. What really hit it off for NASA was the launching of ‘Sputnik’ on October 4th, 1957 shortly followed by its successors. The Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. The launching of the Sputnik is said that “This technological triumph alarmed Americans, who took it as a sign that the United States of America was falling behind the Soviet Union in missile technology”. The president said he wasn’t worried about falling behind other countries because they hadn’t done much. Therefore there wasn’t much to surpass those other countries by. Another reason why Congress had created NASA was to help coordinate research in rocket science and space exploration. There was another act pass and this was the National Defense Education Act ( NDEA ). This act provided the funds for education and training in the arts of science, math, and foreign