10 Interesting Fact About NASA history

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• NASA was founded in 1958.
• NASA was established after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Launching and Development of the National Space System in July 1958.
• In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to slide into the sky with Vostok Space Plane 1.
• In 1969, the Apollo 11 mission became the first mission of humans to walk on the surface of the moon.
• In 1981, Columbia spacecraft was the first space aircraft launched by NASA.
• In 1990, Hubble spacecraft was launched by NASA to conduct astronomy research.
• In 1998, the first mission was successfully landed on the moon, the Lunar Prospector mission.
• In 2004, space aircraft Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars.
• In 2011, Atlantis's mission was the last mission of the NASA Space Repeat Program.
• In 2020, the mission of Perseverance landed on Mars to conduct research.