NASA

Well, now I will talk about an organization that do the most important missions in the space. Nasa was formed in 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act, and it's resposible for the space program and for the long-term civilan and military research. It was created because, in 1957, the sovietics launch the first satellit (Sputnik 1), this called the attention of United States and after several months of debat, they decided that they need a new federal agency to control the non military activity in space. In 31st January 1958, the NASA, launched her first artifitial satellit. After this succesfull launch there were others, but the most important was the Apollo project, that wants to land humans on the Moon and return them to the Earth. The first mission was Apollo 1 that was not any result, because all the astronauts died during an experimentally simullation where a fire was generated in the command module. After this they do some unmanned tests: Apollo 8 and Apollo 11, that their objectives were orbiting the Moon, and returned photographs. On July 20, 1969 the NASA tried a new expedition for land humans on the Moon with Apollo 11, their creew members where Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin, this expedition achieved his objective and these two astronauts were the first humans that have put the here feet on the Moon.
An other great thing that the NASA has done is the skylab, the first space station that United States launched in orbit.
After two great events, the NASA has done lots of spacial missions for explore the Space an for know if there are some live in som place, the last mission launched by the NASA is the Kepler on March 6 at 22:49:57 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.




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