The U.S. Congress passes legislation and signed by Pres. Eisenhower establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating Americaâs activities in space, on July 29, 1958. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has also launched numerous earth-orbiting satellites that have been instrumental in everything from weather forecasting to navigation to global communications.
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