NASA
History
The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration was created on October 1, 1958,
"to provide for research into the problems of flight within and
outside the Earth's atmosphere and for other purposes." This was
one year after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 and a "technology
gap" crisis had become part of the Cold War.
Since then, NASA
has built a largely successful human spaceflight program; sent probes
and landers throughout the solar system and beyond; orbited telescopes
and observatories of both outer space and Earth; and conducted research
in aeronautics.
NASA History in Brief
http://history.nasa.gov/brief.html
NASA
History Fact Sheet
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/factsheet.htm
Orders
of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4406/cover.html
NASA's
Origins and the Dawn of the Space Age
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/monograph10/foreword.html
National
Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
http://history.nasa.gov/spaceact-legishistory.pdf
NASA's 50th Anniversary
http://www.nasa.gov/50th/home/index.html
Great Images from NASA's History
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
NASA Historical
Data Books
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/cover.html
NASA
JSC History Collection
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/info/history/history_collection.htm
NASA Biographies
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/prsnnl.htm
Key Documents in the History
of Space Policy
http://history.nasa.gov/spdocs.html
NASA History Books Online
http://history.nasa.gov/series95.html
NASA
Aeronautics History Sources
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/aeronaut.html
NASA Records at National
Archives
http://history.nasa.gov/nara1.html
NASA Centers
http://www.nasa.gov/about/sites
NASA
History Chronologies
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html
NASA Project Anniversary
Links
http://history.nasa.gov/anniv.htm
Chronology
of Lunar and Planetary Exploration,
1957-present
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chrono.html
This Month in Space History
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
Mission
Patches
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/mission_patches.html
Sputnik and The
Dawn of the Space Age
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/index.html
JSC's "Yesterday's
Space Facts" date-based
search engine
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/dayfacts/archives/
NASA Technical Reports
http://ntrs.nasa.gov
Langley
Research Center Technical Reports Server
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/reports/index.html
NASA Science and Technical Information
(STI)
http://www.sti.nasa.gov
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