55 years of NASA milestones (pictures) - CNET

On July 29, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, officially creating NASA. Fifty-five years later, NASA may finally be eligible for those plum senior discounts, but the agency show no signs of slowing down after a very productive first five and a half decades of existence. Arguably though, NASA's first major accomplishment came a few months before the agency was officially formed, when Explorer 1 -- the first American satellite -- was launched from Cape Canaveral. Explorer 1 was designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which would become a part of NASA just a few months after the new space agency was created. July 29, 2013 3:08 PM PDT Photo by: NASA/JPL | Caption by: Eric Mack via Science - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE-kJTrQN44bEvHGwMENwFkXRlJQw&url=http://news.cnet.com/2300-17938_105-10017690.html

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