Posted on 09/25/2008 1:51:08 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
In 50 years, NASA has earned itself an unparalleled reputation as an engineering, technological and scientific pioneer by pushing science to the limit. "Because our mission is flight in all its forms, in space and in the air, we think and work in our engineering and our science at the extremes -- and that's where the greatest discoveries are made," NASA administrator Michael Griffin said in a speech last year.
NASA began to conduct space missions within months of its creation on October 1, 1958.
"Over the last 50 years NASA has undertaken spectacular programs in human spaceflight, robotic spaceflight, and aeronautics research," Steve Dick, the chief historian of the US space agency, said.
NASA programs, such as the six Apollo missions which ran from 1969 to 1972 and saw a total of 12 US astronauts set foot on the moon, not only helped to promote scientific advancement but also had a huge impact on how humans see their planet.
"The effect of the Apollo program was profound, no more so than in its view of earth from the moon," Dick said.
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Should be more like...
NASA Still wasting our money past the limit
I sure can---we'll STILL be waiting for the shuttle replacement. NASA lost it's "edge" long ago, and is now simply an employment scheme for certain Congressional districts.
NASA has become a bloated inefficient tepid govt. agency that is not what it once was.
To afraid to step in a pile of pooh.
Where’s something we can use like battery technology and alternative fuels. NASA; what a boondoggle, pushing science is great but I haven’t seen much relevancy.
That's one small stool for man, one giant heap for mankind.
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