HALF A CENTURY OF NASA

Half A Century Of Nasa

TO IMPROVE LIFE HERE, TO EXTEND LIFE THERE, TO FIND LIFE BEYOND.

It’s NASA’s fifty year anniversary this year. That’s fifty years since Eisenhower decided enough was enough, that America would no longer trail and splutter in the fumes of Russia’s rampant space development, that the nerdy Nation Advisory Committee for Aeronautics would become a government-funded priority. With a mission statement fit for Armaggedon 2 - “To improve life here, to extend life there, to find life beyond” - the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was born.

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Categories Endeavour Tags Exploration NASA Space

By on 28/7/08