Spurred on by Sputnik and the growing development of Soviet space supremacy, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The date was July 29, 1958. In the past fifty years, agency has grown in size and in scope, from the moon to the far corners of the universe, but never has it forgotten its initial vision: the expansion of human knowledge of space, Earth, and everything in between.

Happy birthday, NASA.

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