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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, partially in response to the Soviet Union's launch of the first artificial satellite the previous year. NASA grew out of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), which had been researching flight technology for more than 40 years.
 
NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. In the next 20 years, NASA will be laying the groundwork for sending humans not only beyond Earth's orbit, but further into space than they've ever been. (Source: NASA.gov / Photo: Flickr)

Articles about NASA


Mars-bound penny will keep things in perspective for Rover

Thu, Feb 09 2012 at 10:36 AM EST
The penny is intended to act as a scaling tool for any pictures that the Curiosity rover takes on the Red Planet.
 

NASA veteran Janice Voss dies of cancer at 55

Wed, Feb 08 2012 at 10:30 AM EST
Voss served as mission specialist on 5 space shuttle missions and helped create the most complete digital topographic map of the Earth.
 

NASA rich in astronaut applications, lacking in spaceships

Mon, Feb 06 2012 at 10:02 AM EST
The new class of astronauts will be announced in 2013, and will most likely be among the first to fly to space on privately operated spaceships.
 

Blue Marble 2.0: The science behind NASA's amazing photos

Sun, Feb 05 2012 at 3:42 PM EST
The famous images of Earth from space are stitched together from satellite photos taken over an 8-hour period.
 

Greenhouse gases, not sun, driving global warming, says NASA

Thu, Feb 02 2012 at 10:58 AM EST
The sun's decline in solar storm activity up to this year indicates that it is not the 'dominant driver' of global warming.
 

NASA captures video of moon's far side

Thu, Feb 02 2012 at 9:53 AM EST
Video is part of a larger project for schoolchildren on Earth to be able to fully explore the lunar surface from a computer.
 

NASA's technology wish list revealed

Wed, Feb 01 2012 at 3:33 PM EST
Priorities include technologies that would help humans survive beyond low-Earth orbit for extended periods of time and the search for extraterrestrial life.
 

Sun storms may keep space tidy by sweeping away junk

Wed, Feb 01 2012 at 2:39 PM EST
Energy from the Sun puffs up Earth's atmosphere helping to draw space debris fall toward Earth burning up on the way.
 

Face-like shape emerges from nebula

Wed, Feb 01 2012 at 9:44 AM EST
The edge of the wall of gas and dust at the right resembles the profile of a human face, with a ridge in the center that looks like a nose.
 

NASA spacecraft detects 'alien' matter from beyond our solar system

Wed, Feb 01 2012 at 9:30 AM EST
The 'interstellar material' is the leftovers of older stars that have ended their lives in a supernova.
 
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