THE NASA ARCHIVES. 40TH ED.

On October 1, 1958, the worlds first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Unions launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to Venus, Mars, and worlds fa...[Read more]