American Military News by Ryan Morgan October 01, 2020
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially began its operations on Oct. 1, 1958., just three months after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act in July of that year.
According to NASA, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act creating the NASA space agency after the Soviet Union flew the first two Sputnik satellites in 1957 and a third Sputnik satellite in May of 1958. The new agency incorporated elements of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which was founded in 1915 to further U.S. aeronautics research efforts.
President Eisenhower nominated T. Keith Glennan, the president of Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, to be the first to be NASA Administrator and Hugh L. Dryden, director of NACA, and to be the first Deputy Administrator. Glennan served until 1961, and Dryden served until 1965.
NASA began its first operations out of the Dolley Madison House on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., which served as the first headquarters of the new space agency until 1961. NASA’s current headquarters are located at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington D.C. The current NASA building is named after Mary W. Jackson, a black NASA mathematician and aerospace engineer.
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