History of NASA

After World War II, the Department of Defense began a serious exploration drive into the fields of rocketry and upper atmosphere sciences to insure American leadership in technology. President DwightD. Eisenhower, in support of this trouble, approved a plan to circumvent a scientific satellite as part of the International Geophysical Year( IGY) for the period July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958, a collaborative trouble to gather scientific data about the Earth. snappily, the Soviet Union jumped in, publicizing plans to circumvent its own satellite. 

 

 On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration( NASA). The rookie National Aeronautics and Space Administration agency absorbed the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics( NACA) which was aU.S. civil agency innovated on March 3, 1915 to take over, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical exploration. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved, and its means and labor force formed the core of the recently created National Aeronautics and Space Administration.