Who formed NASA

[Robertinfremont]

I bet many democrats believe it was Kennedy. But it was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA.

While this new federal agency would conduct all non-military space activity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in February 1958 to develop space technology for military application.

NASA Created - HISTORY


Watch Apollo 17 to learn the history of our moon and our planet.

 

[Craig234]

I don't read the OP, but it was created by Eisenhower, why?

 

[Ikari]

I don't read the OP, but it was created by Eisenhower, why?

I'm surprised they aren't claiming Trump made it.

 

[trouble13]

I'm surprised they aren't claiming Trump made it.

He is improving it [emoji16]

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[Ikari]

 

[Chomsky]

I bet many democrats believe it was Kennedy. But it was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA.

While this new federal agency would conduct all non-military space activity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in February 1958 to develop space technology for military application.

NASA Created - HISTORY


Watch Apollo 17 to learn the history of our moon and our planet.

Eisenhower did a lot of great stuff, not the least of which is the Interstate Highway System.

 

[Craig234]

Eisenhower did a lot of great stuff, not the least of which is the Interstate Highway System.

Most people know the good stuff. Not as many know the horrible stuff.

 

[Robertinfremont]

Eisenhower did a lot of great stuff, not the least of which is the Interstate Highway System.

I made a lot of my income off that highway system.

 

[Robertinfremont]

I don't read the OP, but it was created by Eisenhower, why?

You were told it was Eisenhower.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Most people know the good stuff. Not as many know the horrible stuff.

Yeah we KNOW a lot of the horrible stuff, like Operation Wetback, for instance.
Doesn't change the fact that Ike just might have been the last good Republican.
Goldwater was too nuts back in the Sixties but I swear, as he aged, he became better and better.

I would love to know the purpose of this thread...was there a vast contingent of Dems insisting NASA was Kennedy's baby?
I must have missed it.
The Moon Shot was Kennedy's baby, and Johnson's, and Nixon's.

The one thing I'd like folks to take away from a thread like this is the FACT that NASA was never political, and neither was space exploration, and it was also the time period in which America can take perhaps the greatest pride for a great many things.

We went to the Moon together, as a people, without party hackery, without partisanship, without nationalism, without tribalism, without cheating.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I bet many democrats believe it was Kennedy. But it was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA.

While this new federal agency would conduct all non-military space activity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in February 1958 to develop space technology for military application.

NASA Created - HISTORY


Watch Apollo 17 to learn the history of our moon and our planet.

You bet a lot of incredibly idiotic things.

 

[Robertinfremont]

I don't read the OP, but it was created by Eisenhower, why?

Watch Apollo 17 to learn the history of our moon and our planet.

 

[Robertinfremont]

You bet a lot of incredibly idiotic things.

I had not attacked Checkerboard Strangler but look who he attacked.

 

[Chomsky]

I made a lot of my income off that highway system.

Then I'll thank you and/or your employer for all highway the tax dollars contributed!

 

[Robertinfremont]

Then I'll thank you and/or your employer for all highway the tax dollars contributed!

We were well paid to build that freeway.

 

[Chomsky]

We were well paid to build that freeway.

Ah, sry. Thx for the clarification. I thought you might have been a trucker. But yeah, what a great project to be involved with. It brought America together. Made the country smaller.

 

[iguanaman]

I bet many democrats believe it was Kennedy. But it was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA.

While this new federal agency would conduct all non-military space activity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in February 1958 to develop space technology for military application.

NASA Created - HISTORY


Watch Apollo 17 to learn the history of our moon and our planet.

Yes. "I like Ike" the last decent Republican President....What happened to that party?
It also in no way diminishes JFK's pivotal role in our triumphant moon landing program. Ike started NASA but JFK MADE it.

 

[Lisa]

I bet many democrats believe it was Kennedy. But it was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA.

While this new federal agency would conduct all non-military space activity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in February 1958 to develop space technology for military application.

NASA Created - HISTORY


Watch Apollo 17 to learn the history of our moon and our planet.

Eisenhower's action was a technical formality because NACA had been conducting aeronautical research since 1915 as NACA. We had already been previously a spaceflight program prior to the change from NACA to NASA. Where is this claim going or is this threat just pointless rambling?

On November 21, 1957, Hugh Dryden, NACA's director, established the Special Committee on Space Technology. The committee, also called the Stever Committee after its chairman, Guyford Stever, was a special steering committee that was formed with the mandate to coordinate various branches of the federal government, private companies as well as universities within the United States with NACA's objectives and also harness their expertise in order to develop a space program.

Wernher von Braun, technical director at the US Army's Ballistic Missile Agency would have a Jupiter C rocket ready to launch a satellite in 1956, only to have it delayed, and the Soviets would launch Sputnik 1 in October 1957.
On March 5, 1958, James Killian, who chaired the President's Science Advisory Committee, wrote a memorandum to the President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Titled, "Organization for Civil Space Programs," it encouraged the President to sanction the creation of NASA. He wrote that a civil space program should be based on a "strengthened and redesignated" NACA, indicating that NACA was a "going Federal research agency" with 7,500 employees and $300 million worth of facilities, which could expand its research program "with a minimum of delay."

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - Wikipedia

 

[Ikari]

Then I'll thank you and/or your employer for all highway the tax dollars contributed!

Damned socialists.

lol

 

[Craig234]

The Moon Shot was Kennedy's baby, and Johnson's, and Nixon's.

Not Nixon's.

We went to the Moon together, as a people, without party hackery, without partisanship, without nationalism, without tribalism, without cheating.

There was more than a little nationalism.

 

[Schism]

There was more than a little nationalism.

Being a proud American is now considered to be nazi behavior by the left and their MSM.

Meanwhile they wait three months to denounce violent riots.

 

[Grand Mal]

He is improving it [emoji16]

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He's ignoring it. He says global warming is a Chinese hoax. NASA says different.

 

[iguanaman]

Not Nixon's.



There was more than a little nationalism.

We were still on top of the world too. There was nothing we could not do. It was sacrilege to say otherwise. But if the moon landing was about any President it would have to be JFK, his untimely death was such a huge blow that we felt the need to do many things in his memory.

 

[iguanaman]

He's ignoring it. He says global warming is a Chinese hoax. NASA says different.

Trump is the most anti-science President in modern history. His reelection will set back science for a generation. Good thing it will not happen. :lol:

 

[iguanaman]

Being a proud American is now considered to be nazi behavior by the left and their MSM.

Meanwhile they wait three months to denounce violent riots.

Worshiping an orange spray painted wannabe dictator is against everything that is American. We always have our allegiance to the country and the Constitution over any politician. Presidents come and go, it is our country that always remains. That's been how it's been in America since it's founding. If you are confused just wait 52 more days and you will see what I mean.