NASA

(noun)

The agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.

Related Terms

  • Apollo Program
  • Green revolution
  • Sputnik I
  • Space Race

Examples of NASA in the following topics:

  • The Eisenhower Administration

    • He sent the Army to Arkansas to enforce court orders regarding racial integration, created NASA, and made the space race against Russia a high priority.
    • Eisenhower came under heavy criticism after the Sputnik launch, and his administration responded to this crisis with many strategic initiatives, including the creation of NASA in 1958 and a speeding up of the American space program.
    • Under Eisenhower, the NASA's human spaceflight program started and visionary projects such as Saturn and the F-1 rocket engine were funded.
  • The George H.W. Bush Administration

    • Although a space station was eventually constructed–work on the International Space Station began in 1998–other work has been confounded by budgetary issues within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
  • The John F. Kennedy Administration

    • On November 21, 1962, in a cabinet meeting with administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) James E.
  • Second-Wave Feminism

    • By the early 1980s, it was largely perceived that women had met their goals and succeeded in changing social attitudes towards gender roles, repealing oppressive laws that were based on sex, integrating the "boys' clubs" such as Military academies, the United States armed forces, NASA, single-sex colleges, men's clubs, and the Supreme Court, and illegalizing gender discrimination.
  • Modern Republicanism

    • His enduring innovations include his launching of the Interstate Highway System, DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which lead to the internet among other things), NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, driving peaceful discovery in space), the establishment of strong science education via the National Defense Education Act, and the encouragement of peaceful nuclear power use via amendments to the Atomic Energy Act.
  • Reactions to Sputnik

    • On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.
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