Express By Sebastian Kettley 7/23/2018
NASA’s very own Diamond Jubilee is being celebrated with a pomp this weekend, six decades after the space agency was founded.
NASA will celebrate 60 years since US President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958.
Ahead of the anniversary, NASA has partnered with the US National Symphony to present a one-of-a-kind concert in Washington titled: “NSO Pops: Space, the Next Frontierâ€.
The magical performance was complemented with stunning images of the moon captured by NASA’s experts at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
To mark the anniversary, NASA graphic artist Matthew Skeins designed a bold new logo for the space agency, capitalising on NASA’s proud history of space exploration.
In a statement, the agency said the logo “depicts how NASA is building on its historic past to soar toward a challenging and inspiring future.â€
NASA came into existence when Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act in July although the space agency considers its actual birthday to be October 1 – the first day of business at NASA.
The federal agency was largely built upon a framework laid out by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) which NASA eventually absorbed into its own structures.
NACA was founded in March 1915, in the middle of World War One, in a bid for the US to catch with the rest of Europe with its lacking aeroplane technology.
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