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posted by chromas on Monday July 30 2018, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-no-moon dept.

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Sixty years ago, on July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, paving the way for the official opening of NASA's doors just a few months later, on Oct. 1.

The drive to create an American civilian space agency began with the shocking revelation on Oct. 4, 1957, that the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the punch and launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, aboard an intercontinental ballistic missile. The USSR was quick to tout its success in launching Earth's "second moon."

"Sputnik 1 was a phenomenon: You could go see it in your backyard," recalled physicist and engineer Guy Stever, who was on the faculty of MIT at the time, in a 1992 oral history workshop on the origins of the law.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-nasa-got-its-start-60-years-ago-sputnik-eisenhower/


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 30 2018, @06:59PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 30 2018, @06:59PM (#714877) Journal

    Allowed scripts on knowing-jesus.com - and still had a crummy disjointed page. I didn't allow third parties to run scripts. If there had been a .cdn or -cdn in the list, I might have tried that. Javascript sucks just as bad on Jesus sites as it does on earthly pages. You think maybe we should mention it to the archangels?

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 30 2018, @09:38PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday July 30 2018, @09:38PM (#714954) Journal

    That's probably why the Doctor Who-verse has the Weeping Angels: java script and Jesus sites.

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