10 amazing facts of "NASA"

10 amazing facts of "NASA"

1)The 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)President John F. Kennedy gave NASA the goal of sending a man to the              moon by the end of the 1960s.
 4)Many 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 NASA employees. Most of the         workers in NASA are scientists and engineers. People do several other jobs         also here like writers, lawyers, teachers etc.

6)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.

7)Founding and the Sputnik crisis. NASA was preceded by the "National                  Advisory Committee for Aeronautics" (NACA). ...

8)The Mercury Project. Originally NASA was very small with only four laboratories and                around eighty people working there. ..

9)1st space launch, launching the 1st American to space. 

10) Originally NASA was very small with only four laboratories and around                eighty people working there. Project Gemini.