The National Aeronautics and Space Administration celebrates its birthday today!

Hurray! Today Is The National Aeronautics and Space Day. Happy Birthday To You, NASA! (Photo: X.com)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was founded on October 1, 1958! On this day, the space agency started operations formally. 

In response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik, President Eisenhower had two months earlier signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law.

Today, July 29, 1958, marks the 50th anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Act (Pub.L. 85-568), the United States federal law that established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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To the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Happy Birthday To You!

As a coordinated effort to develop space research and technology, Congress established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because the US didn’t want to fall behind in the space race.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) with its 8,000 staff members and three laboratories was absorbed into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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