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The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was formed on March 3, 1915
It was reorganized as NASA in 1958. On the one hand, Eisenhower prevented the US from orbiting the first satellite because he thought it would be "provocative". The USSR wasn't worried about that, and a year later sent up Sputnik. Great call, Ike.
OTOH, the F1 engine was made possible because of the large physical size and mass of Ed Teller's H-bomb design (Ivy MIke), and von Braun saw his chance to build his moon rocket motor, and development began in 1955, during the Eisenhower administration. By the time the military pulled the plug on it because of the emergence of a smaller H-bomb design (Castle Bravo) that worked, much of the F1 work was done, NASA picked up the development program, and by the time JFK was in office, the F1 had been tuned to eliminate combustion instability, and the first ones were delivered in 1963.