NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION TURNS 40

From: Regulatory Intelligence Data | Date: September 30, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

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WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- "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 on October 1, 1958.

NASA's creation 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. During this period, space exploration emerged as a major area of contest and became known as the ...

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