10 hidden amazing facts about NASA you should know.

10 hidden amazing facts about NASA, you should know.

  1. Do you know in 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA. That time it was established as a civilian independent agency of the United States federal government executive branch.
  2. Let me tell you that before the establishment of NASA, President Woodrow Wilson started the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The main function is to supervise and to direct scientific research and to study problems related to flight.
  3. Let me make you remember about Sputnik 1, which was the first artificial satellite in the world launched by the Soviets just one year before the establishment of NASA?
  4. Do you know a series of satellites named Landsat was launched into space in 1972 to click the photograph of Earth's surface from outer space?
  5. Tell you that by the end of the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy gave NASA a goal of sending a man to the moon. On 20 July 1969, the first man walked on the moon as a part of the Apollo 11 mission. During all Apollo missions, around twelve men walked on the moon. The lunar landing of Apollo 13 in 1970 was aborted after the explosion of an oxygen tank.
  6. Do you know about a research aircraft used by NASA known as SR-71 or "Blackbird" for testing high-speed, high-altitude aeronautical research? In the 1950s, it was secretly designed at Lockheed's Advanced Development Company, also known as "Skunk Works."
  7. You should know that the headquarter of NASA is in Washington, D.C. It has nine centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and seven test and research facilities located in several states around the country. Do you know that more than 17,000 people work for NASA and many work with the agency as government contractors? Astronauts are the best-known NASA employees. Most of the workers in NASA are scientists and engineers. People do several other jobs also here like writers, lawyers, teachers, etc.
  8. Currently, NASA has astronauts living and working on the International Space Station. Everywhere in the solar system, NASA's robotic space probes have visited and various celestial bodies. With the help of a telescope, scientists look at the far reaches of space. In fact, Satellites helped and provided several data about Earth, which had helped to understand several phenomena and valuable information for better understanding the weather patterns.
  9. NASA also showed a movie named Armageddon to new staff and then question them about inaccuracies in the film. At least 168 have been identified. In 1972, NASA and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare founded the Learning Channel (TLC).
  10. Do you know that NASA has a program for dealing with life on other planets and if it should be discovered, known as the Office of Planetary Protection?
  11. Let me tell you something amazing that on 26 November 2011, NASA launched a mission to Mars, and it landed on Mars on 6 August 2012, intending to determine that Mars was ever to support microbial life.
  12. Do you know by the Artemis program is the lunar exploration program of NASA. By 2024, NASA is committed to land American astronauts, including the first woman and the next man on the moon.

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