NASA

** By Julius Glover, grade 6 ** The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was first created by President Eisenhower on October 1, 1958. N.A.S.A had two main purposes; to provide research in flight problems within and outside the earth’s atmosphere; also to beat the Soviet Union in getting the first satellite in space. The reason was because there was a Cold War happening between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. Before N.A.S.A finished production, the Soviet Union had sent out Sputnik, which was the first artificial satellite. Sputnik was sent out into space on October 4, 1957. Four months later, NASA sent out EXPLORER 1, on Jan 31, 1958. N.A.S.A. soon discovered the existence of radiation belts encircling the earth. It was a giant step forward into human development for space travel. Over eleven years after EXPLORER 1, N.A.S.A sent Apollo 11. APOLLO 11 had one mission, to perform a lunar crewed landing and return back to Earth. John F. Kennedy was committed to launching APOLLO 11. It took 25.4 million dollars, eleven years, and 3 funerals. It was launched from Cape Kennedy on Jul 20, 1969.
 * The National Aeronautics and Space Administration **

N.A.S.A today is still innovating in new technologies to help the research of on and off flight control. The past discovery of the radiation belt has helped N.A.S.A to learn more about the galaxies and space travel. Since that discovery, N.A.S.A. and other countries created the International Space Station. The International Space Station’s purpose is to do research that you can’t do from earth. Now that America has been collaborating with Russia and other countries, they have had the ability to use the space station to get research for all of their countries.