NASA
History
The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration was created on October 1, 1958,
"to provide for research into the problems of flight within and
outside the Earth's atmosphere and for other purposes." This was
one year after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 and a "technology
gap" crisis had become part of the Cold War.
Since then, NASA
has built a largely successful human spaceflight program; sent probes
and landers throughout the solar system and beyond; orbited telescopes
and observatories of both outer space and Earth; and conducted research
in aeronautics.
NASA History in Brief http://history.nasa.gov/brief.html
NASA
History Fact Sheet http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/factsheet.htm
Orders
of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990 http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4406/cover.html
NASA's
Origins and the Dawn of the Space Age http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/monograph10/foreword.html
National
Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/amendact.html
NASA's 40th Anniversary http://history.nasa.gov/40thann/40home.htm
Great Images from NASA's History http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
NASA Historical
Data Books http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/cover.html
NASA
JSC History Collection http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/info/history/history_collection.htm
NASA Biographies http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/prsnnl.htm
Key
Documents in the History of Space Policy http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/astronautics.html
NASA
History Books Online http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/on-line.html
NASA
Aeronautics History Sources http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/aeronaut.html
NASA
Records at National Archives http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/nara/nara1.html
NASA Centers http://www.nasa.gov/about/sites
NASA
History Chronologies http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html
NASA Project Anniversary
Links http://history.nasa.gov/anniv.htm
Chronology
of Lunar and Planetary Exploration,
1957-present http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chrono.html
This Month in Space History http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
Mission
Patches http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/mission_patches.html
Cold War Exhibit
at Library of Congress website http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html
Sputnik and The
Dawn of the Space Age http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/index.html
JSC's "Yesterday's
Space Facts" date-based
search engine http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/dayfacts/archives/
NASA Technical Reports http://ntrs.nasa.gov
Langley Research
Center Technical Reports Server http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/ltrs.html
NACA Technical Reports http://naca.larc.nasa.gov
NASA Science and Technical Information
(STI) http://www.sti.nasa.gov
NASA Thesaurus http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesfrm1.htm
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