10 amazing facts of "NASA"
10 amazing facts of "NASA" 1) T he acronym "NASA" stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2) NASA , or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was created by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958 in response to the Soviet Union's launch of the first artificial satellite the previous year. 3) P resident John F. Kennedy gave NASA the goal of sending a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s. 4)M any years, NASA is responsible for several space explorations originating within the United States. 5) 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 NAS