In 1958, NASA launched Able 2, later known as Pioneer 1, on a mission to study the Moon. The spacecraft failed to reach lunar ...
On this day in 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law legislation creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mounting pressures of a space race between the United States ...
Explorer 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Jan. 31, 1958. * Image: Courtesy of NASA * 1958: The United States enters the space age with the successful launch of the Explorer I satellite.
The United States dared to boldly go where no man had gone before when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on this day in history, July 29, 1958. The ...
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American effort to understand whether living organisms could survive the journey into space. Beginning in the mid-1940s, ...
American scientists attending a reception at the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C., that day knew their Russian colleagues were close. With luck, the thinking went, the USSR might launch a satellite ...
On this day in 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law legislation creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When the fledgling agency began operations on Oct. 1, 1958, it ...
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