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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/
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 31 2018, @05:16AM (1 child)
If you had something more damning than erroneous minutia, you'd have presented it by now.
A typical example of the huge camel in the tent that keeps getting ignored. There were almost half a million people working on Apollo and the USSR, a hostile power with the resources to discredit any fake efforts by NASA, apparently just went along on this. Nor do we have a credible explanation why both the US and the USSR would go to so much trouble to fake stuff.
Finally, what's the end game here? This is yet another example of peeling of the onion where your true beliefs and motives remain hidden till the ignoble end. The last time someone claimed the lunar landings were a hoax, it turns out Satan in conjunction with the Freemasons was purportedly at fault. If they had started with that, it would have been painfully clear from the start what sort of idiots they were and much time could be saved.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday July 31 2018, @05:54PM
MyOpinion, very interesting opinion. Look at his very first tweet. He says there's no Space Age, there was never a Space Age, it's all fake. I own some property in Florida, I've seen the rockets going up -- looks INCREDIBLE, by the way -- I don't agree. But there's so much Fake News, I think a lot of folks just decided, "oh, it's all fake!" And I don't blame them. I don't blame them.