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NASA's First 50 Years - A Historical Perspective (Hardcover)
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NASA's First 50 Years - A Historical Perspective (Hardcover)
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On 29 July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National
Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA), which became operational on 1 October
of that year. Over the next 50 years, NASA achieved a set of
spectacular feats, ranging from advancing the well-established
field of aeronautics to pioneering the new fields of Earth and
space science and human spaceflight. In the midst of the
geopolitical context of the Cold War, 12 Americans walked on the
Moon, arriving in peace "for all mankind." Humans saw their home
planet from a new perspective, with unforgettable Apollo images of
Earthrise and the "Blue Marble," as well as the "pale blue dot"
from the edge of the solar system. A flotilla of spacecraft has
studied Earth, while other spacecraft have probed the depths of the
solar system and the universe beyond. In the 1980s, the evolution
of aeronautics gave us the first winged human spacecraft, the Space
Shuttle, and the International Space Station stands as a symbol of
human cooperation in space as well as a possible way station to the
stars. With the Apollo fire and two Space Shuttle accidents, NASA
has also seen the depths of tragedy. In this volume, a wide array
of scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA's first 50 years,
probing an institution widely seen as the premier agency for
exploration in the world, carrying on a long tradition of
exploration by the United States and the human species in general.
Fifty years after its founding, NASA finds itself at a crossroads
that historical perspectives can only help to illuminate.
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